Judith Harbiston

Mrs. Judith Copeland Harbiston, known affectionately as “Judy”, age 72, of Newport, North Carolina, entered into her eternal rest Thursday evening, October 11, 2012, at the Carteret General Hospital in Moorehead City, North Carolina.

Funeral services will be conducted 11 o’clock Wednesday morning, October 17, 2012, from Little Swamp United Methodist Church, 17465 Hunter’s Chapel Road, Smoaks. The Reverend Kevin P. Stroop officiating. Interment will follow in the churchyard.

A native of Williams, South Carolina, she was a daughter of the late James Lenroe Copeland and the late Martha Garris Copeland born December 26, 1939. After having attended Junior Methodist College and Erskine College, where she had received her Bachelors’ Degree, she became an educator having taught third grade as well as having been a Librarian at Goose Creek Elementary School. She made the Havelock and Newport areas her home in 1995 where she had attended Harlowe United Methodist Church. She was a former member of Little Swamp United Methodist Church where she had sung with the church choir and was active with the United Methodist Youth.

Surviving are: her husband of forty-six years, Henry Casper Harbiston, Jr.; a daughter, Karen Denice Stull and her husband Donald of Albany, Georgia; and a son, James Henry Harbiston of Newport, North Carolina. There is one granddaughter, Rebecca Dianne Cercopely; and a great granddaughter, Danielle Marie Cardonia; as well as an aunt, Mary Joe Strickland of Orangeburg along with cousins, George Burbage, Jr., Mary Lynn Britt, and Parker Burbage all of Jedburg who also survive.

In lieu of flowers, the family has respectfully requested that memorial contributions be directed in her memory to the following: The American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75231; or donate at: www.americanheart.org; or to, Alzheimer's Association National Office, 225 North Michigan Avenue., Floor 17, Chicago, Illinois 60601; or donate at: www.alz.org.

For those that so desire, memorial messages and thoughts of condolence as well as memories of Judy may be shared with the family by visiting: www.briceherndonfuneralhome.com.

Family and friends are invited to call from 6:00 until 8:00 this Tuesday evening at THE BRICE W. HERNDON AND SONS FUNERAL HOMES, WALTERBORO CHAPEL, 1193 Bells Highway, Walterboro, 843.538.5408.

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