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Eleanor Marsh Whitaker

March 4, 1938 to September 27, 2026
Willow Harbor, SC

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Visitation

4 pm to 7 pm, Main Chapel, 118 Evergreen Place, Willow Harbor, SC 29900

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Funeral service

11 am, Willow Harbor Community Church (fictional)

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Burial

12:30 pm, Cedar Grove Memorial Garden (fictional)

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Eleanor spent eighty-eight years making everyone around her feel like the most important person in the room.

She grew up in Willow Harbor, taught second grade for thirty-one years, and never once forgot a student’s name. She kept a garden that fed half the street, sang alto in the church choir, and could not pass a stray cat without stopping.

She is survived by her children Elena and David, her grandchildren, and a great many friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts be made to the Willow Harbor Community Library Fund (fictional).

Memories of Eleanor.

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A former student

Mrs. Whitaker taught me to read. Forty years later I still hear her voice when I open a book.

A neighbor

Every summer there were tomatoes on our porch, and we never once saw her leave them.