LUGOFF - Funeral service for Rev. Nelson Thomas Rhodes, 51, will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Lugoff First Baptist Church with burial to follow in Faith Baptist Church Cemetery, Bishopville. Rev. Henry Stanford and Rev. Greg Sweet will officiate. The family will receive friends Tuesday 6-8 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Gideon’s International. Mr. Rhodes died Sunday, March 16, 2008. Born in Welch, W.V., he was a son of Dolleta Hendrick Rhodes and the late Joseph Weldon Rhodes. He was a Southern Baptist minister and was a member of Lugoff First Baptist Church. He had a zeal for life and enjoyed people. He loved to hunt and fish and be outdoors. Surviving are his wife of 32 years, Daisy Kirkland Rhodes; sons, Terry D. Rhodes and his wife, Jennifer of Lugoff, and Jason D. Rhodes of Columbia; two grandchildren, Waylen D. Rhodes and Madeline G. Rhodes; mother of Lugoff; brothers, Eugene W. Rhodes of Lugoff, Rev. Wendell Wayne Rhodes and his wife, Eunice of Centerville, and Rev. Jerry Rhodes and his wife, Wanda of Gastonia, N.C.; and sisters, Susan Roepke and her husband Arthur of Elgin, and Jane Martin and her husband, Randall of Lugoff.