Ms. Pearl Celeste Carter Oliphant, 89, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at Doctor’s Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. Her passing has sent an astonishing distress of sorrow throughout the CSRA community and nationally.

Ms. Oliphant was dearly loved by her children, Cheryl Oliphant Dunn (Bobby), Wendy Oliphant Hairston, and Mark Vincent Oliphant; grandchildren, Darius Carter Hairston and Sheena Sharise Hairston. Parents and siblings have preceded her in death. Parents, Leslie Mac Carter and Georgia Lou Saxon Carter; siblings, William Marion Carter, Lessie Mae Carter, Eddie L. Carter Sills, Bernice Carrie Carter Thomas, and Arthur Mac Carter.

Her remarkable legacy and life’s work in education, church, historical recognition of family, auxiliary affiliations, and humanitarian justices are profound.

Public viewing will be December 18, 2025, from 2 to 6 p.m. Family will receive friends from 4-6p.m. at Kinsey & Walton Funeral Home, Peach Orchard Road, Augusta, GA 30906.

The Homegoing Celebration will be 10 a.m. Friday, December 19th, 2025, at Broadway Baptist Church, 2323 Barton Chapel Road, Augusta, GA 30906.

Kinsey & Walton Funeral Home Peach Orchard Road Augusta, GA 30906 (706) 790-8858