Julian Hennig Jr.
1922- 2006

Julian Hennig Jr., 84, died on Sunday, December 31, 2006, in the Lexington Medical Center after an illness.

Mr. Hennig was born on March 12, 1922, in Columbia, the son of the late Julian H. Hennig and Helen Kohn Hennig of Columbia. He was a graduate of Columbia High School, Yale University, and Yale Law School. He also studied at Oxford University in England.

During World War II, he served with the U.S. Marine Corps Third and First Marine Divisions in the Pacific Theater. He was discharged a Captain.

He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1948. After practicing law in Columbia, he joined August Kohn and Co., Inc. mortgage bankers in 1952. He served as the president of August Kohn and Co., Inc., a subsidiary of First National Bank of S.C., from 1971 until his retirement in 1985.

In 1961, he married the late Virginia Gaston Hennig of Chester, South Carolina, with whom he was happily married for 44 years.

Mr. Hennig served as a chairman of the Board of Trustees of Providence Hospital; a director of the CSA Health & Human Services, Cleveland, Ohio; a director of First National Bank of S.C.; a director emeritus of South Carolina National Bank; a president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of the Carolinas; a president of the Richland County Public Library; a trustee of the Columbia Museum of Art; a director of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce; a trustee of Benedict College; a trustee of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School; a trustee of the Carolina Children's Home; a director of the American Red Cross; a trustee of the University of South Carolina Society; a director of the Columbia Music Festival Association; a member of the Board of Governors of the Town Theatre; and a president of the Columbia Stage Company.

He was a member of the Tree of Life Congregation, Columbia Kiwanis Club, Mortgage Bankers Assn. of America, and The South Caroliniana Society. Mr. Hennig was an avid reader and traveler.

He is survived by his sister, Irene Hennig Burnett of Merritt Island, Florida; his daughter, Helen Hennig Kluiters; his son, Julian ("Jay") Hennig III; his daughter- in- law, Sarah Waites Hennig; his son- in- law, Edward George John Kluiters; and his four grandchildren: Virginia Marie Kluiters, Edward George John Kluiters Jr., Julian Hennig IV, and Beverly Waites Hennig, all of Columbia.

Graveside services for Julian Hennig Jr. were conducted at 2 pm on Wednesday, January 3, 2007, at the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery at the corner of Taylor and Gadsden Streets, Columbia, S.C. The family received friends after the service at Mr. Hennig's home at 811 Woodland Drive, Columbia, S.C.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to a charity of one's choice.