Marjorie Hester Smith COLUMBIA, SC-- Services in loving memory of Marjorie Hester Smith will be held at 12:00 noon Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 1100 Sumter Street, Columbia. The family will receive friends following the service in Satterlee Hall. The family will also receive friends from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in the Guignard Mansion Parlor at Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community, 1 Still Hopes Drive, West Columbia. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family. Mrs. Smith, 84, died on May 16, 2012. Born August 3, 1927, in Belmont, Alabama, she was the youngest daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Forrest Lee Hester of Belmont, Alabama, and the twin of Marlyn Franklin Hester, who predeceased her in 2004, as did her older brother, Forrest Lee Hester, Jr. in 1972, and her older sisters, Wynona Hester White in 1993, Elizabeth Kelly Hester Land in 1997, and Orlean Hester Tartt in 2010. Mrs. Smith was a 1949 graduate of Auburn University with a B.S. in Home Economics. She worked as a social worker prior to her marriage on April 26, 1952 to the late Jack Walker Smith of Birmingham, Alabama, who predeceased her in 2010. She lived in Atlanta, Spartanburg, and High Point, serving on committees and hosting events. She also worked briefly as a substitute high school teacher in High Point. Mrs. Smith was an avid reader and a great lover of books and literature, a passion she shared with everyone and a legacy she passed on to her children. She was a member of several book clubs and worked tirelessly to help start and make a success of the Trinity bookstore. Mrs. Smith was actively involved in church activities, volunteering for many committees, participating in numerous study groups, and serving as a lay Eucharistic minister. She graduated from the EfM (Education for Ministry) program at Sewanee, the University of the South. She will be remembered most as a good friend to everyone. She always thought of people in generous ways with food, flowers, strawberries, blueberries, lamb cakes and other small but thoughtful gestures. She took the time to be with people, drive them places and simply listen to them. Her most cherished trait was her wise counsel. She encouraged people to love themselves and to tell their children that they were special, loved and a treasure from God. Mrs. Smith is survived by her three children, Jack Walker Smith, Jr., of Atlanta, GA, married to Joy Duncan Smith, Marjorie Smith Campbell of Westminster, married to Donald Pickens Campbell, and Dorothy Smith Weaver of Columbia, married to John Walter Weaver; her six grandchildren, Katherine Campbell Smith of Seneca, married to Joseph Daniel Smith, Marjorie Anne Campbell and Georgia Pickens Campbell of Westminster, and Walker Edgar Weaver and twins, Marjorie Duncan Weaver and Dorothy Chastain Weaver of Columbia. Marjorie, known to friends and family throughout her life as Sis, was a devoted wife, a loving mother and grandmother and a true and loyal friend. Memorials may be made to the Still Hopes Resident Assistance Fund, P.O. Box 2959, West Columbia, SC 29171 or Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, ATTN: Children's Ministry, 1100 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals.com.