Greenville, SC

Marian Kay McCormac Bonnoitt, wife of H. E. (Tez) Bonnoitt, Jr., passed from her earthly body on June 14, 2025, after it had been occupied over the past few years by an insidious debilitating invader. Kay was born on March 23,1943, in Kingstree, SC, the daughter of John Kay McCormac and Marian Dubose (Rowell) McCormac.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Georgetown, SC, where she lived the majority of her life. Kay graduated from Winyah High in 1962 and went to Atlanta to attend Massey Business College. She next moved to Charleston SC, where she worked as a computer programmer for Public Savings Life Insurance Company, and then The South Carolina State Ports Authority. It was at this time that she became engaged to a young Naval Officer that she had earlier met at the Pawleys Island Pavilion. Upon his release from military duty, the couple married in Georgetown at Duncan Memorial UMC on December 13, 1969.

The young couple spent the next 3 years in Columbia, SC where Kay continued to work as a computer programmer at The State Newspaper and the SC Department of Mental Health, while Tez attended Law School at The University of South Carolina. Then it was back to Georgetown where they lived for the next 50 years. Kay briefly worked at Georgetown Steel Company before stopping to spend full time caring for her two young sons. Once her boys began school, Kay began a career in real estate sales which lasted until she retired on January 1, 2007. Upon retirement Kay took up various hobbies until she discovered her love for oil painting, to which she devoted most of her time before becoming disabled.

Kay and Tez moved to Greenville, SC in May of 2023 to be close to their son and only two grandchildren. Kay has been a member of Duncan Memorial since the late 1950's and has held a number of positions on various church committees, as well as on various civic and social organizations in the Georgetown Community.

Kay was preceded in death by her parents; her first born son, Albert, who died in childbirth in August of 1973; and her sister, Etta Siau. She is survived by her husband of 55 years, her sons H. E. "Beau" Bonnoitt, III (Lucy), and John McCormac Bonnoitt (Roselle); her grandsons, Patrick Jeffery Bonnoitt and Benjamin McCormac Bonnoitt; her step grandsons, Parker Stanley Jenkins and Charles David Jenkins; her sister-in-law, Margaret A. Bonnoitt; her brother-in-law John Earnest Bonnoitt (Judi); her nephew, John "Jay" Earnest Bonnoitt, Jr.; as well as her sisters children, her nephew, Clay Siau and niece, Shannon Siau.

A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 o'clock on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Duncan Memorial Methodist Church, 901 Highmarket St, Georgetown, SC. The family will receive friends immediately after the service in the Church Family Life Center.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be made to Alzheimer's Disease Research via https://www.alz.org/get-involved-now/donate or Duncan Memorial Methodist Church via https://duncanmemorialchurch.com/giving .

The Downtown Chapel of Mayer-Ethridge Funeral Home and Crematory, 843-546-4184, is assisting the Bonnoitt family with the arrangements.