LUGOFF - A memorial service for Donald Reid “Donnie” Sanders, 62, will be held Thursday at 6:30 at Powers Funeral Home. Rev. Dr. Charles Everett will officiate. The family will receive friends Thursday 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the funeral home prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Walter M. Crowe Animal Shelter, 460 Fair Street, Camden, S.C. 29020. Mr. Sanders died Monday, June 21, 2010. Born in Lancaster, he was a son of the late Purvis L. and Berline Jewell Rucker Sanders. A graduate of the University of South Carolina BFA, he was co-owner of Salt Pond Farm and Garden. He was a prolific artist in the mediums of oil prints, wood sculpting and pond pottery. Donnie was an avid animal lover who accepted and nurtured all animals. Even though he did not have children, he loved and treated nieces and nephews as his own. Surviving are his brother, Lt. Col. Purvis L. “Fuzz” Sanders, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret’d) and his wife, Linda of Lynchburg, Va.; sisters, Sandra Sanders Hicks and her husband, Roger of Lexington, and Judy Sanders Corbett of Pickens; nieces and nephews, Rick Hicks, Kathy Snelgrove, Michelle Painter, Andrea Porterfield, Jonathan Sanders, Ellen Sanders, Christi Leigh Corbett, and Turner Corbett; and numerous great-nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a niece, Lara Miller. As a part of Donnie’s celebration of life and his relaxed life style, the family request that all of his friends dress in casual attire.