SUMTER – Funeral service for Vernelle Fay Mincey Dinkins, 82, will be held Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home, Lugoff, with burial to follow in Sawney’s Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Richard Humphries and the Rev. Walter C. Ballenger III will officiate. The family will receive friends Monday 5-7 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Wise Drive Nazarene Church, 318 North Wise Drive, Sumter, S.C. 29150 or Sawney’s Creek Baptist Church, 14605 State Highway 34 E Ridgeway, SC 29130. Mrs. Dinkins, wife of the late Charles Ellis Dinkins Sr., died Friday, March 1, 2013. Born in Winnsboro, she was a daughter of the late Henry Grady and Julian Tabitha Slater Mincey. She served in the United States Army and retired from Charm Manufacturing in Ridgeway. She was a member of Sawney’s Creek Baptist Church in Ridgeway and attended Wise Drive Nazarene Church in Sumter. She enjoyed reading and cooking. Survivng are her children, Michael Mincey (Diane) of Garden City, Charles Ellis Dinkins Jr. of Sumter, Susan Dinkins Cade (Al) of Eastover, Charnell Harwell Dinkins of Sumter, Chester Ray Dinkins (Cindy) of Sumter, and Sharon C. Dinkins of Texas; sister, Loretta Faris Smith (Herbert) of Winnsboro; brother, Jackie Ray Mincey (Beasley) of Winnsboro; 20 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and 1 great great-grandchild. She was predeceased by a son, Charlton Otis Dinkins; sister, Peggy Tolbert; 2 grandchildren; and 1 great-grandchild.