Anne Toner Campbell

TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA - Anne Marie Toner Campbell, 68, of Tybee Island, Georgia, and formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, widow of James Baldwin Campbell, died Thursday morning, September 1, 2011, at Memorial University Medical Center surrounded by her family.
Born in Rochester, New York, she was a daughter of the late Daniel Toner and the late Annie Lynch Toner. "Lady Anne" was an eleven-year resident of Tybee and was as at home on the island as she was in Columbia, where she raised her family. In her youth, Anne worked for American Airlines, taking advantage of the opportunities she was given to travel the globe. It was in her role with the airline that she met her husband, Jim. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a nursing degree in 1978, Anne worked at the Columbia VA Hospital for twenty-two years, retiring in 2000 as a Nurse Practitioner. During her career she continued her travels, going twice to Haiti on medical mission trips and New York City as a Red Cross Disaster volunteer following September 11th. Upon her retirement, she moved to Tybee and became an enthusiastic member of the Tybee Arts Association and participated in multiple theatric productions. Anne embraced the wonderful quirkiness of the island and its denizens, and the island loved her back.
Surviving are five daughters, Colleen Campbell Bozard and her husband, Tim, and Sharon Campbell Edwards and her husband, Don, all of Columbia, South Carolina, Christine Campbell of Denver, Colorado, Anne-Marie Jones and her husband, Jeff, and Susan Campbell-Bixler and her husband, John, all of Savannah, Georgia; seven grandchildren, Maggie and Michael Coates, Kelly and Nicholas Bozard, Campbell and Caroline Jones, Neil Bixler and Marlea Campbell, and her cousin, Rosemary Greco of Columbia, South Carolina.
A celebration of Anne's life will be held from 6 until 9 o'clock Monday evening at American Legion Post 154 - 10 Veterans Drive on Tybee Island.
A memorial service will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Saint Michael Catholic Church conducted by The Reverend Thomas J. Peyton. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests remembrances to: The James B. Campbell - Charles H. Witten Fellowship, Fund number 1B1374, College of Education, in care of the University of South Carolina - Suite 736, 1600 Hampton Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208.