Helen Jewell Jackson Campbell, a resident of Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton, died at Wright Memorial Hospital on Sunday, July 26, 2015.
A funeral service is scheduled for 11:00 a.m., Thursday, July 30, 2015 at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton. Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens. A visitation is scheduled from 10 until service time Thursday. Memorial donations are suggested to the North 65 Senior Center and may be left with or mailed to the funeral home.
Mrs. Campbell was born July 9, 1922 on a farm near Galt, MO, the daughter of Clarence J. and Mary Dorinda Grim Davis. She was a 1940 graduate of the Galt High School. She was a member of the Trenton First Baptist Church and the Lydia Sunday School Class. She was also a member of the Rebekah Lodge #120 of Edinburg.
On February 8, 1942 she married Forrest R. Jackson who died on February 7, 1979. She was preceded in death by both of her parents, and her brothers Claude, Fred and Leon Davis. The couple moved from a farm near Galt to Trenton in 1960. She worked at the Baker and P.N. Hirsch Stores prior to becoming a reporter for the Trenton Republican Times. After working there eight years, she accepted the position of Deputy County Clerk, retiring on March 19, 1987. She married Ivan Campbell on February 14, 1987, who preceded her in death in January of 2013.
Mrs. Campbell is survived by three daughters: Linda McCullough and husband, Dale, of Gladstone, MO; Mary Koehn and husband, Bob, of Longville, LA, and Donna Sue Jackson of Trenton; four grandsons and their families: Barry McCullough, his wife, Anita of Gladstone, and daughters Megan Shore and husband Jason, and daughters, Scarlet and Ella, Kansas City, MO; Abby Ranney and her husband, Trent of Houston, TX; and Marissa Hernandez of Kansas City, MO; Mark, his wife, Stephanie, and sons, Kaleb, Kole and Keaton Hummel of Kansas City, MO; Chris McCullough, his wife Michelle and their daughters, Rene and Leah of Kansas City, MO; and Jeff Koehn, his wife Lena and children, Samuel and Abigail of Maurice, LA; granddaughters, Kristen Koehn, of Colorado Springs, CO, and Amy Koehn of Anchorage, AK; step daughter-in-law, Sharon Campbell, of St. Joseph, MO; two step-grandchildren, Susan Jayne Seever and husband, Kirk, and their children, Dustin and Kaitlin, of Atchison, KS, and Carla Burns and daughter, April, of Belton, MO; one niece and three nephews.
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