Eleanor Campbell

Jun 29, 2006 | Obituaries

Eleanor Campbell, an 84-year-old resident of the Galt community, died at 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, where she had been a patient the past two days.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, 2006 at the Galt Christian Church in Galt. Burial will be in the Berry Cemetery, north of Galt.

There is no scheduled family visitation planned at the Payne Funeral Home, where a general visitation is under way.

Mrs. Campbell was born on May 31, 1922 in Grundy County, the daughter of Ezzie and Sylvia Anderson Hessenflow. She was married on June 18, 1956 in Carrollton to Russell D. Campbell, who survives of the home near Galt. They had lived all their married lives in Grundy County and farmed for many years near Galt. Due to ill health, she had resided at the Eastview Manor Care Center in Trenton for the past three months.

She was a member of the Salem Methodist Church near Galt.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by one son, Dale Campbell of Trenton; a daughter, Gail Dickey and her husband, Dennis, of Kansas City; two step-sons, Rusty Campbell and his wife, Judy, of Princeton and Bobby Jack Campbell and his wife, Stephanie, of Willow Grove, PA; seven step-daughters, Judy Sharp and her husband, Allan, Charlotte Whitt, Janice Garrison and her husband, Dwayne, Linda Spencer and her husband, Daryl, Jackie White and her husband, Larry, and Florence Burgess and her husband, Phil, all of Trenton, and Sara Fitch and her husband, Phil, of Riverside; four grandchildren; 22 step-grandchildren; 48 step-great-grandchildren; two step-great-great-grandsons; a sister, Martha Spainhour and her husband, Emery, of Peculiar; a brother, Claude Hessenflow of Harrisonville; and a special cousin, Velda Kincaid of Trenton.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.

The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society.