Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Elzie Arlington Campbell

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Obit for Elzie Arlington Campbell

Graveside services for Elzie Arlington Campbell, 84, of Oklahoma City,
formerly of Cheyenne and Durham will be held at City Cemetery at 1:00 p.m.
in Granite, Oklahoma on Thursday, February 22, 2001.  Elize went to be with
the Lord on Monday, February 19, 2001, at Share Convalescent Center in Alva,
Oklahoma after suffering several recent strokes.  He was born October 20,
1916, in Brandleyville, Missouri.  Elzie retired after a lifetime in Western
OKlahoma businesses, beign active in the ownership and management of
hatcheries in Granite and Cheyenne, flour mills in Durham and Cheyenne, feed
mills and grain eleavtors in Cheyenne and Sayre, real estate sales and
motels.  Elzie was preceded in death by his wife, Fern Irene; parents Lewis
Arlington and Annie Campbell of Seiling, Oklahoma, a brother, Albert Calvin
Campbell of Seiling, Oklahoma, and a great host of friends.  Surviving are
two sons: Larry with his wife Christine of San Antonio, Texas and Jerry with
his wife Betty of Livingston, Texas; grandchildren, Michael Campbell and wife 
Sherry, Alan Campbell and wife Stephanie of Littleton, Colorado, Jerry Ray 
Campbell, Jr. and wife Sharon of Coronado, California and Terri Parsons and 
husband Don of Alva, Oklahoma; two great-grandchildren Ariel Marie Campbell 
of Coronado, California and Maxwell Arlington Parsons of Alva, Oklahoma; sisters 
Mary Lee Gray of Oklahoma City, Velma Mae emmert of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nadine 
JoAnnDell Dora of Hayward, California and one brother Alvin Laverne of Crockett,
Texas.  Elzie was a member of the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City, and
a fifty-two year member of the Masonic lodge 528 of Reydon, Oklahoma and
Masonic Lodge 133 of Cheyenne, Oklahoma as well as a 32nd degree Mason of
Scottish Rite, Guthrie, Oklahoma.  He served as a Quartermaster in the
United States Merchant Marine, steering an oil tanker into six continents
during World War II.  Elzie was a family man and fisherman.  His children
and grandchildren will most remember him lingering over a campfire after 
a long day of fishing and water skiing.  Family visitation will be held at 
Hahn-Cook Street and Draper Funeral Home on Wednesday evening from 6-8.  
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Calvary Boys Ranch, P.O. Box 834, 
Eufaula, Oklahoma 74432.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK