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Josephine Brice Brown Irvin, widow of the late Dr. Charles Warren Irvin, Jr., died at home on Sunday, June 5, 2011. She was 89 years old.

Mrs. Irvin was a devoted friend of the University Libraries. She was a lifetime member of the Ex Libris Society of the University Libraries. She and Dr. Irvin provided substantial support to the Libraries and were honored by the University in the naming of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections located in the Hollings Library.

"Dr. and Mrs. Irvin and their family have done so much for the library, and for the new rare books library,” said Dr. Patrick Scott, director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. “I am so glad that she was able to see the new library completed, and to visit it with her sons and their families last year before the formal opening."

Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1324 Marion Street, Columbia, SC 29201 or USC Libraries c/o Dean of Libraries, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.