Benjamin "BG" Eugene Pinckney Sr. Obituary (1927

Benjamin Eugene Pinckney (B.G.) passed on to eternity on April 7, 2015. The family will receive friends on Thursday, April 9, 2015 from 5 to 7 pm at Anderson Funeral Home. A Funeral Service will take place on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 10 am in the Parish Church of St. Helena with interment in St. Helena Cemetery. He was born April 14, 1927 to Katherine Walpole Pinckney and James Porcher Pinckney, Sr. He was a lifelong resident of Beaufort. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Anne Elizabeth Hogge Pinckney, and their three children, Jo Anne Pinckney Tudor (Ray), Mary Lu Pinckney, and Benjamin E. "Benjie" Pinckney, Jr. He will be missed by four grandchildren, Jessica Lee Posey, Elizabeth Cotesworth McCurdy, Charles Sheldon Davis, and Elizabeth Bellinger Pinckney, as well as 4 great grandchildren, Caroline Porcher Maichel, Emma Kathryn McCurdy, Sadie Grace McCurdy, and Bray Pinckney Posey. B.G. is also survived by his sister, Sarah Pinckney Davis, and his brother, Louis Pinckney. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was on a ship headed to Singapore when the war ended. After marrying Anne in 1950, they moved to Ossabaw Island, Georgia where he worked rounding up free range cattle. One year later they moved to Clarendon Plantation where B.G. worked for Mr. and Mrs. Julius White managing the dairy. He and Anne moved to Retreat Plantation in 1955 where he managed the 160 acre property for Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Ponvert of Oyster Bay, Long Island. They purchased Retreat in 1965, where he continued to manage the property as well as breeding and raising Polled Hereford cattle and registered Quarter Horses. He was a lifelong member of the Parish Church of St. Helena. He served as a founding member of the Preservation Trust and as Co-warden on the Vestry. He also served on the Cemetery Corporation, the Restoration Committee, the Properties Committee, and a search committee (Rev. Frank Limehouse). He performed many manual labor projects for St. Helena's, also building and installing many of the hymnal racks which are still in use at St. Helena's. B.G. was also a founding member of the Beaufort Saddle and Bridle Club. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to The Preservation Trust for Historic St. Helena's Church, Inc., P.O. Box 1043, Beaufort, SC 29901 or Friends of Caroline Hospice, 1110 13th Street, Port Royal, SC 29935. The family would like to thank Luvenia, Samantha, Mae, and Whitley for the tender care and love extended to B.G. during the final months of his life, as well the compassion and support shown by Friends of Caroline Hospice.