Rene Merrill Trimnal

Rock Hill - Rene Merrill Trimnal, 66, of 1619 Reservation Road, died Thursday, November 11, 2010,
at Piedmont Medical Center.

Funeral services will be 4:00 P.M. Monday, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Catawba Ward, on Reservation Road. Burial will be in the church cemetery.The family will receive friends Monday, 2:30-4:00 pm, at the church.

A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mrs. Trimnal was a daughter of the late Bob Kenneth Merrill and Carol Wooley Merrill.

Rene spent her life in the service of others, first her family, and then everyone else she met. She raised nine of her own children and mothered countless others, including those she welcomed into her home to stay and the many others she couldnt send away without a meal and her love. Her genuine desire to make sure everyone she met was taken care of meant she sought out those who needed someone. She found a way to be the someone who could be there for them. She spent what she thought of as the greatest part of her life as a homemaker, building a life for herself and her family, teaching them the skills they would need in life, the love of learning that would open the world to them, and the foudation of faith that would keep them anchored no matter where their lives could lead them. Her greatest desire was for those in her life to find joy and to have her family with her in Eternity. Her faith was so much a part of her that to know her was to know her love of God.

Surviving are four sons, Joel Bales, Bob Trimnal and his wife Cathey, Thom Trimnal and his wife Mary, and Sam Trimnal and his wife Kristi; five daughters, Jenne Kekoolani and her husband Hank, Caryn Patel and her husband Hamant, Becky Magalogo and her husband Tou, Kathy Christensen and her husband Jud and Heather Taylor and her husband John; two brothers, Ken Merrill and Kevin Merrill. She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Kara Lindsay Trimnal and a daughter-in-law Michelle Bales.

Memorials may be made to the Carolina Pediatric Therapy Cooperative, 129 Hampton St., Rock Hill, S.C., 29730-4509

Condolences may be sent to www.whitesellfuneralhome.net