Julian Smith Obituary

I am So Very, Very Sorry for the loss of Julian! God Rest his sweet heart!!! I knew him when I was a young girl at Stella Maris and lived in Mt. Pleasant! He use to live next to Lou Moon and his family! That is how I met him! My father,Joe Arnot,took a job with Yellow Freight, and my family moved to Columbia, SC! So I lost touch with Julian! He had a beautiful smile and was SO funny!! I am now finally back in Mt. Pleasant, and I have wondered if the Julian Smith affiliated with the Bridge Run, was him!!!! WOW!!! What an impressive career and life Julian had!!! I am SO Very Proud of it all, and I KNOW his family and friends are!! God Bless you all! My Love & Prayers to all of you!!!

Julian will be remembered fondly and missed by all who had the pleasure to know him. My condolences to the Smith Family and the community of Charleston.
Rachelle Sorensen-Cox

Condolences to the entire Smith Family. Praying that wonderful memories will sustain and give you peace at this very sad time. Julian will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
The Essenbergs; John, Joan and Lori

Deeply saddened by the great loss we all will feel with Mr. Julian's passing. He truly was larger than life. I will remember his joyous laugh forever. God bless his family during this time. And may you rest in glorious peace, Mr. Julian,
In deepest sympathy,
The Bell Family

Thanks, Julian, for the vision, guidance, and support in creating the "Kids' Run." Everyone dies, but not everyone truly knows how to live - thanks for showing us how to live with purpose. God bless your family and all your friends. #CancerFreeNow

Julian was a wonderful gift to the health and spirit of our community, in his powerful leadership of the Cooper River Bridge Run and of the MUSC Wellness Center, and his personal example of grit and perseverance in the face of illness. We were blessed to have him!

RESPECT - nothing but RESPECT for JULIAN - he was someone that I admired. Personally, having been around the running industry for 27 years, worked with many race directors and organizations, Julian was a giant superstar. He was a kind soul and always took the time to speak with me and share his thoughts. His spirit will live on through Bridge Run and all the people he touched. Grateful to have known him for so many years. My deepest condolences to his family, entire Bridge Run family, and to the Charleston SC community.

Julian was always a wise ear to lend us advice and ideas at the Idaho Women's Fitness Celebration. We had some terrific times at the Portland Marathon Race Director's Conferences.
So much laughter.

Thank you Julian, for your caring heart, incredible wit and dashing smile. You helped us in so many ways as we grew our event.

Warm hugs to all his family.

Lorene Oates
Idaho Women's Fitness Celebration
St. Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration
Boise, Idaho

Mrs. Smith and Family:

Please accept my sincerest sympathy on the passing of your dear son and brother. Julian was truly always a nice person.

God bless Julian and God bless all of you.

Sincerelyan old friend from the pastAllen Young

Julian, I knew you were the best choice of our race, the day your name came up. To call you a fellow Bridge Run Director tells so little of you as a man. Marc and I created the race. You made it the best 10k in America and were our city's best Ambassador. You never lost your cool and were the Cool Hand Luke of the race. Most importantly, I will miss your generosity, your kindness and the fact that my own wife even had a crush on you:). We will keep the race at the same high standard you have reached, I promise. I will see you some day. The Lord has you and there is an old saying "the Lord picks the prettiest flowers first". How true.
Love,
Terry Hamlin-Co Founder Cooper River Bridge Run
Dolly Hamlin- minister of DAR

One of the kindness people I have ever had the honor of meeting, you will be missed by so many, it was my pleasure serving your real estate needs.

JuJu, I will never quit you! Save me a seat....
Loving you always and forever,
Gigi

My love and condolences to Julian's family. I will especially be thinking about you, Susan. Julian and I worked together at the Student Wellness Center. He kept many balls in the air and I always admired him for that. What I liked about him most was his honesty. That's a rare gift in today's world.

Julian was a wonderful friend and larger than life. He will be missed by all.

To Susan Fox: I am so very sorry to hear about the death of your beloved brother. I didn't know he was sick and hope he didn't suffer long. Prayers and thoughts to your family. Sincerely, Toni Catoe

God bless you, Julian. Bring love and laughter to our loved ones in your eternal home. We'll see you again before too long. Love, Jay and Family

What a giant of a man with a giant heart and a giant smile that could always light up a room when he walked in. While I served on the Komen for the Cure board - he was such a great supporter and designated this group as one of his charities of choice when he implemented the charity choices for the Bridge Run and awarded Komen a check $36,000 that year. Always available to lend a hand or a supportive comment. Charleston has lost one of the greats and for this year's bridge run - he'll have the best seat from above to see all the people he has touched greatly in his life of wonderful works. Godspeed Julian. You'll always been one of my heros!

Julian perfected the art of good, clean mischief, while happily encouraging Paul and Julie as well as those of us who were fortunate enough to be his friends.

I had the pleasure of knowing Julian for 23 years ...first as a sponsor of the Cooper River Bridge Run,and we became great friends from the beginning.
Our family will always treasure our memories and good times we had with Julian over the years, whether it was during the race festivities, 2nd Sunday on King Street, Halls Business Luncheons , or simply just hanging out with each other.
Sincere condolences to the family and the multitude of friends that know and love Julian .
Julian, Rest In Peace my friend.
Much love from Deborah, Stacey, Nicole and myself .

Julian you will be greatly missed by everyone you encountered. Your smile was contagious. Your were an inspiration and I look forward to seeing you again.

I met Julian some 25 years ago through my brother, Taylor, who worked with him at the MUSC Wellness Center. He had a bigger than life personality and was a great all around man. He was a dear friend of Taylor's, and will be missed by all who knew him. Running the CRBR will be bittersweet this year, but loving memories of Julian will surely abound!

We wish the family and friends sincere sympathy during this time. Julian was such an amazing man and friend he will truly be missed but certainly not forgotten. His memory and accomplishments have touched us all in so many ways. His commitment to our community and all the visitors that come to charleston will live on for decades to come. His love, his laugh and his presence had touched us all in so many ways. His memory will live on through each one of us. I feel so very grateful to have known him and called him our friend.
Wishing all the family and friends fond memories of times gone by and hoping those memories will be some peace in times ahead.
Missing you julian and thank you.
Scott and Mary Ellen.

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My love, thoughts and prayers for the entire family. Such a kind, good man who did so much for so many. We will all miss him. May it be of some comfort knowing he is at peace with Our Lord in heaven.
Frances Condon

Julian you will be forever missed but always remembered. You were a great man. Great love to your family.

Maribeth, Tom and Trent Hill

I met Julian when we both worked at Belk of Northwood. He was a great friend. People who had the pleasure of knowing him and his contagious laugh and light hearted personality will miss him terribly.

I first met Julian at the Portland Marathon - Oregon, where I was doing course marshaling etc with my mega phone, Julian seems to be impressed with my role etc and to quote his own words to me, in a heavy Southern accent " Peter, like what you do etc - I would like "Yew Al"to come to my event and do your own thing with your heavy English accent ", I , of course, readily accepted which I had the pleasure of doing over 5 years - I found Julian a very likeable, friendly and pleasant person, during our annual trip to Portland we spent a pleasant couple of hours together over dinner , once on a one to one meeting and one with the company of Les and Buffy Wright - race director of the South Lake Tahoe Marathon events - I feel very honoured, proud, humble etc to have known Julian - will miss him, this year as I will be running his race for the first time so for myself it will be very extra special and will run it in memory of Julian - truly regret that I will be unable to come over from London for the 27th- I will be leaving London on April 1st to fly to Tampa then will drive up to Charleston on the 5th, I will do my best to attend Julian's funeral as and when it has been arranged - Julian was truly a very BIG man in every sense PETER TORRE LONDON GREAT BRITAIN

( Please print my words in English ie HONOURED for authenticity of my words from London GB thanks )

We met Julian through his niece Betty Griffith and always enjoyed being with him on special occasions with the Griffith family. He will be missed by all that had the privilege of knowing him.

Sending you love and light.

I feel so fortunate to have known Julian. Our relationship started out as a business one and grew into a friendship. I learned much form him and will never forget him. He meant so much to all the people he touched. He was truly one of a kind. Thank you for being a big part of my life Julian.