Ruth Malcolm Pickett

Entered into eternal rest on the afternoon of March 13, 2011, Ruth Malcolm Pickett, widow of Dr. Otis M. Pickett, Jr.  Residence, Mount Pleasant, SC.  The relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral service Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Mount Pleasant. Interment, Magnolia Cemetery.  Friends may call at J. HENRY STUHR, INC., MOUNT PLEASANT CHAPEL, Tuesday between 5:00 and 7:00 pm. Mrs. Pickett was born April 26, 1921 in Fort Totten, New York, the daughter of Dr. Robert Malcolm, US Army Major (Ret.) and Mary Elizabeth Murphy Malcolm.  She was a graduate of Memminger High School and attended nursing school until the war brought her home to help care for her three nephews whose fathers were serving their country in World War II.  She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. She worked side by side with her husband at his practice in the Old Village on Pitt Street for forty years.  They married in 1944, childhood sweethearts since 1936.  Although inseparable from her beloved husband of fifty years, Ruth was a force of nature in her own right.  Her sense of equity and justice, her penchant for giving great parties, her civic engagement, her love of music and indigenous flowers and plants, her fervent support of education, her sense of style, her role as matriarch of the family, which she took very seriously, endeared her to four generations of friends and family from Portland Oregon to Paris France.  She is survived by one daughter: Lark Palma (Dan) of Portland, OR; two sons: Otis M. Pickett, III of Charleston, SC and Malcolm Douglas Pickett (Anne) of Paris, France; five grandchildren, four great grandchildren, seven nieces, four nephews and many great nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to Lutheran Hospice, 900 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.