Scott, we extend our condolences to you. You were a shining star in Susan's life - she was completely comfortable with you. I also appreciate how you looked after her all these years, especially in her final days when she needed you most. Your strength, patience, and love are amazing.
"Sis" left us way too soon. Our fathers (Bo and Ray) were lifelong best friends and are likely still up to some kind of mischief or scheme somewhere; our mothers were very close as well. Susan and I were both "only's" raised near each other and spent much time together as kids, so she is about as close as I ever had to a sibling. I will miss you, "Big Sis," until we meet again.

Message from Aldwin and Laraine Yarbrough

November 28, 2017 6:00 PM

Rest In Peace our beautiful and loving niece. You will always live in our hearts.

Message from Sandy Treadway Carr

November 28, 2017 5:49 PM

OUR FRIEND HAS SLIPPED AWAY

On November 27, 1917, Susan Yarbrough Campbell passed under Sleep's dark and silent gate. As many of you may know, Susan was on the THS 1967 50th Reunion Planning Committee until she became too ill to participate. She bought tickets for the Reunion early and even convinced me to attend, but then she had to miss it. I was able to see her in Titusville three times the week before she left us.

Her husband, Scott, told me that a celebration of her life will be planned for some time in January or February, 2018, in Titusville. We will let you know. Susan rejoins her Father and Mother, the two best people/parents I have ever known.

Susan and I were best friends for over 50 years. In June, when she told me of her illness, I suggested we write a book about our incredible life journeys, a kind of rom-com-adventure-strong [“fierce”!) women romp through the times written in the comedic veins of David Sedaris and Samantha Bee. We talked about it being made into a movie and she wanted Scarlett Johansson to play her; Jennifer Lawrence would play me. We didn’t get very far on this plan, but I may work on “My Best Friend” alone. Included would be vignettes, such as (some of you may be familiar with some of these events):

• Susan and Sandy skipped school senior year to drive up to the University of Florida (Susan making up excuse to English teacher Mr. Forbes)
• Susan routinely skipped school to watch her soap operas
• Susan and Sandy were roommates at the University of Florida and in Jacksonville, where we both taught school at Edward White High School
• Susan and Sandy took a graduation trip to San Francisco in June/July 1971
o coming up with the quotes “move wide loads at night” and “frogs get around” while driving through Louisiana
o getting stuck in Amarillo with a blown radiator, so we decided to drive north to Colorado instead of driving across Arizona
o taking the Coors tour in Golden, Colorado: picking up hippy hitchhikers there and Susan invites them to ride with us all the way to San Francisco through Elko Nevada
• Susan and Sandy regularly attended the White Springs Folk Festival in the 70s with Michael Moore singing
• Arlo Guthrie concert in Jacksonville in the early 70s; meeting him backstage after concert, with Susan inviting him back to our apartment for a party
• Susan, Sandy and friends making a “Mothra” type movie in Jacksonville
• Susan and Sandy on a sailboat on the Indian River in Jacksonville getting scared in water with “Jaws” which had just been released in early summer 1975; playing backgammon (“Count begins on point next to which man rests....”)
• In the late 70s, Susan lived on a sailboat and got her captain’s license for passengers for hire (unique for a woman at that time!), she also taught near Ft. Myers (Immokalee) during this time
• Susan and her Father picked me up at the Orlando airport in 1975 after my Father died
• Trip to St. Croix/Tortolla after our 20th year high school reunion in 1987
• Visited Moultrie to see Susan’s mother in 2001; roadside peanut stands, cotton fields, pecan trees on Susan’s mom’s property
• Sandy and Susan in Moultrie at Susan’s Mother’s house in January 2008, going through each room of collectibles to pack up the farm after her Mother passed away in September of 2007

A few lines from songs and movies that I think are very fitting today; you may recognize them. Thank you for indulging me by allowing me to post this memory of Susan.

• It seems she stopped her singing in the middle of her song.

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone

• You and I both know this river will surely flow to an end....
Keep me in your heart, keep your soul on the mend.... I can't bear to think this might be the end.

• Some bright morning when this life is over, I'll fly away. When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away.

• Now you are free. I will see you again, my friend, but not yet, not yet.

A candle was lit by Al and Laraine Yarbrough on November 28, 2017 4:17 PM

A candle was lit by Betty Pace on November 28, 2017 10:54 AM

A candle was lit by Michael Manning on November 28, 2017 6:10 AM

Message from Michael Manning

November 28, 2017 6:02 AM

I am so sorry to hear of Susan's passing....She and I had reconnected during our class reunion several years ago, along with me meeting her husband Scott. We had also lived in the same neighborhood before I decided to move to Georgia to be with my youngest brother and his family. My thoughts and prayers go out to Scott and other family members during this difficult time.