Eleanor Oswald

Funeral services for Eleanor Oswald, 88, will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2025 at Beulah Methodist Church – Gilbert, SC with Rev. Dr. Laura Parrish officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Barr-Price Funeral Home and Crematorium, Historic Batesburg-Leesville Chapel.

Mrs. Eleanor passed away Tuesday, April 8, 2025. She was born on June 26, 1936 to the late William Colin Oswald Jr. and Evalou Wingard Oswald. Eleanor was a lifelong member of Beulah Methodist Church in Gilbert and she retired from Michelin Tire. She loved her family, most everyone called her “Nanny”. She enjoyed trips to the beach and the mountains, where she could relax. Eleanor loved the outdoors, gardening, her beautiful flowers, and most of all, her dog Harley!

Surviving are her son, Phillip “Lynn” Shealy (Renee); brothers, Robert Oswald (Donna) and Billy Oswald (Shirley); sister-in-laws, Dorothy Oswald and Darlene Oswald; grandchildren, Phillip Neal Shealy (Joanna), Brittany Shealy (Chris), Ryan Shealy (Ashley); great-grandchildren, Ashlyn (Joseph), Madison Shealy, and Hunter Shealy.

She was predeceased by her husband, Phillip Lavern Shealy; daughters, Phyllis Shealy Spurlock, and Wanda Shealy McNair, brothers, Roy Oswald and W.C. Oswald; and her sister, Ruby Oswald.

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