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Jerry
1928 - April 11, 2012
*Obituary
Benton County Daily Record
Thursday, April 12, 2012
ROGERS — Jerry Gene Campbell died of lung cancer at the Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Ark., on April 11, 2012. He was born in 1928 in Russellville, Ark., to Raymond Ivy Campbell and Martha Petillo Campbell.
He grew up in Paris, graduated from Paris High School in 1946, and mined coal there, belonging to the United Mine Workers of America. He and his father also co-owned a coalmine in Poteau, Okla. After the coal industry declined, Jerry tried a variety of jobs — milkman, newspaper advertising salesperson for the Daily Oklahoman, and construction work in California (helping to build the irrigation channels there) — before getting hired as an insurance adjuster for Motors Insurance Corporation (MIC), a subsidiary of General Motors. He worked his way up through the ranks ending his GM career as MIC branch manager in Columbus, Ohio.
Retiring to Rogers, Ark., he served with the Gideons, taught adult Sunday school classes at Bella Vista Baptist Church for 15 years, and discovered a latent passion for golf.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Johnye (Shelton) Campbell; his daughter of Bloomington, Minn., Cindy Earnest; her sons, Matthew Earnest, Matthew's wife, Meagan, their daughter, Isla, and Andrew Earnest; another daughter of Lafayette, Colo., Leigh Campbell-Hale, her husband, Charley (Pete) Hale, and their sons, Benjamin, James and John Hale. His sister, Pat Wright of Bella Vista survives him, but his parents, as well as his younger brothers, James Ray and Billy John Campbell, preceded him in death.
Following Jerry's wishes, there will be no memorial service. His cremated remains will be interred at Benton County Memorial Park's Rose Garden Columbarium.
Any donations on behalf should be made to the Salvation Army or www.salvationarmyusa.org and to the Circle of Life Legacy Village Hospice, 901 Jones Road, Springdale, AR 72762, www.nwacircleoflife.org in honor of Jerry Gene Campbell.
His family would like to thank Circle of Life Hospice employees for their compassionate care, and we'd especially like to thank hospice nurse, Tim Darnell, for being an angel of merry.
Online tributes to the family may be made at www.bentoncountymemorialpark.com.
Arrangements are with Benton County Memorial Park Funeral Home and Crematory of Rogers, Ark.
Johnye
January 31, 1929 - June 24, 2017
*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
ROGERS — Johnye Shelton Campbell died Saturday, June 24, at Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Ark., from injuries suffered in a car accident on Wednesday, June 14. Her first words to everybody in the hospital were: "It wasn't my fault," and she was right.
Johnye Campbell was born, in Driggs, Ark., between Paris and Magazine, on Jan. 31, 1929, to parents Justin and Helen Shelton, the middle of nine children. Along with her cousins, she attended elementary school in Driggs, and she went to Paris for her upper grades, graduating from Paris High School.
She married Jerry Campbell, also from Paris, in 1948, and during their marriage they moved frequently, living in several cities in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Illinois and Ohio.
From the mid-1950s on, these moves were to advance Jerry's career with General Motors. During this time, Johnye maintained continuity and stability at home, raising their two daughters, Cindy and Leigh. While keeping a spotless house, in each new city Johnye had to find a new grocery store, dentist, doctor, and more important, a new school and church.
Jerry retired in 1976, and they moved to Rogers, Ark. They joined Bella Vista Baptist Church where Johnye loved serving children in the nursery, and over the years, she was always delighted whenever she met them again as adults. She also volunteered for many gratifying years at St. Mary's Hospital before it became Mercy's.
Johnye's husband Jerry died in 2012. She is survived by daughters, Cindy Campbell Earnest of Bloomington, Minn., and Cindy's sons Andrew and Matthew, along with Matthew's wife Maegan and their daughters, Isla and Norah; and Leigh Campbell Hale and her husband Pete Hale of Lafayette, Colo., and their sons, James, John, and Benjamin and Ben's wife Caitlin Millard. Johnye is also survived by her brothers in California, Kermit and Don Shelton and Don's wife Donna, and her sisters in Arkansas, Martha Kelley and her husband Charlie, and Fern Callan and her husband Tommy, and many nephews and nieces.
Since 2012, Johnye lived in assisted living at Innisfree in Rogers, and especially faithful in their visits to her during this time have been her beloved sister-in-law, Patricia Campbell Wright of Bella Vista, and her niece Suzy Tusing of Springdale.
Johnye Shelton Campbell will be memorialized at a private service at Innisfree for her friends and caring staff there. She will be interned beside her husband at Benton County Memorial Park.
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