CATAWBA COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Jessie Bentley Campbell, 9 Nov 1968
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HICKORY DAILY RECORD, Hickory, NC

Monday, November 11, 1968

[Transcribed by Laura Anne Campbell Harrison]

 
MRS. ROBERT F. CAMPBELL - AREA NATIVE RITE HERE

 

          LENOIR - Mrs. Robert F. Campbell, 83, of 428 South Main Street, 
Lenoir, died in a Morganton nursing home late Saturday afternoon after a long 
illness.

          The former Jessie Bentley, she was born in Wilkes County, Aug. 13, 
1885, a daughter of the late James E. and Josephine Brown Bentley. Her 
husband, whom she married in 1904, died in 1939.

Services Today

          Funeral services were held this morning at ten o'clock at First 
Baptist church in Lenoir. The Rev. Fred D. Barnes, the Rev. Billy Rivers, the 
Rev. Robert Frye, and the Rev. Rowe Teague officiated. Burial was in Walnut 
Grove Baptist church cemetery in Wilkes County.

          Surviving are three sons, Leroy Campbell, president of Hickory Shoe 
Lace Company, of Hickory; J. Orville Campbell,  publisher of the Chapel Hill 
Weekly, of Chapel Hill; and Judge Charles Campbell of Reidsville; four 
daughter, Mrs. Ed (Myrtle) Townsend of Hickory, Mrs. Glayde (Cleo) Kerley of 
Louisburg, Mrs. Robert (Mary Ann) White of Winter Park, Fla., and Miss 
Elizabeth Campbell of Lenoir; one brother, Mack Bentley of Moravian Falls; 19 
grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.

          One son, Jimmy Campbell, preceded Mrs. Campbell in death.

          She lived in Hickory for over thirty years, during the years she was 
rearing her family. She was known throughout the ares for her practical 
nursing. Seventeen years ago, she moved to Lenoir to live with her daughter, 
Elixabeth, and during those years she assisted Elizabeth as much as she could 
in her work as a Baptist Association Missionary. Mrs. Campbell acted as 
hostess at the home. She was a member of First Baptist Church while in Hickory 
but had since joined First Baptist Church in Lenoir. For many years, in both 
of the two churches, Mrs. Campbell was superintendent of the nursery 
department.

          Until her health failed, Mrs. Campbell was active in Woman's 
Missionary Union.


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