Anita Darlene Burns Harvey left this world on July 26, 2024 and entered her new eternal home where her Heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus, welcomed her to the place that they had prepared especially for her.

Anita grew up in Clinton, IL, where her grandmother raised her as the oldest of several cousins. She met Jesus Christ as her personal savior in elementary school though the witness of a neighborhood girl who invited her to attend vacation Bible school at the local Free Methodist Church. Anita subsequently attended Greenville College in Greenville, IL, where Larry and Marilyn Juhlin and their four children became her surrogate family. After graduating with a degree in elementary education, she taught fourth and fifth grade for one year at Faith Heritage School in Syracuse, NY and met her future husband, John, when they both began attending Campus Crusade for Christ meetings on the university campus.

After marrying John in 1974, Anita lived and worked in Pennsylvania and North Carolina for nine years before moving to Columbia, SC in 1983, where - apart from brief sojourns in Toronto, Canada and Korntal, Germany – she and John lived for the next forty-one years. Anita worked in the accounting offices of Columbia International University and Ontario Bible College and Seminary until 1996, when she gleefully retired to become a full-time homemaker, work on myriad of craft projects, and enjoy women's group activities both at CIU and at Church.

Diagnosed with cancer in January of 2024, Anita valiantly battled the disease, sustained by the confidence that God was in charge and would bring her through to the end he had planned for her.

Her grandmother, Mary Ellen Burns, her father, Richard Darrell Burns, and her mother, Anita Ingeborg Stieber Burns, preceded her in death. Her husband of fifty years, John, will miss his friend, his companion, and the love of his life profoundly. Other surviving relatives include her aunt, Betty C. Burns McKown; her cousins, Karan McKown Brunetto (Michael), Bradley G. McKown (Laura); three nieces, Erin M. Brunetto Krempges, Kelsy M. Brunetto Haddock, and Halie A. McKown; and a nephew, Mitchel G. McKown.

Anita's friends and church family will celebrate her life at 11 o'clock on August 3, 2024, at Faith Presbyterian Church in Ballentine, SC, with Dr. Karl McCallister officiating. Individuals who wish to remember Anita with a memorial may send gifts in her name to Columbia International University, 7435 Monticello Road, Columbia, SC 29203, or Faith Presbyterian Church, 1811 Dutch fork Road, Irmo, SC 29063. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel, is assisting the family.