Born to John H. and Mary Ann Blevins, Feb. 5, 1906, at Union, Ark. Services for Myrtle Campbell, 99, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, in the Clinkingbeard Chapel, Ava, with the Rev. Nolan Carrier and Rev. Tom Maples officiating.
Visitation will be Saturday, from 1 p.m. to service time. Memorials may be made to First Southern Baptist Church, Ava, Community Hospices of America, Gideon International, or the charity of choice.
Interment will follow in the Ava Cemetery.
Mrs. Campbell was born to John H. and Mary Ann Blevins, Feb. 5, 1906, at Union, Ark.
Myrtle taught in a one room grade school for five years. She was married to Andy Campbell June 15, 1930. They made their home near Salem, Ark., where four children, Jimmie, Charles, Violet and Max, were born. In 1939 they moved to Ava, where Andy delivered mail, ran a tire shop and operated a car dealership.
Myrtle was a member of Ava First Southern Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, and their wives, Charles and Wanda Campbell, Forsyth, Max and Norma Campbell, Ava, and one daughter, and son-in-law, Violet and Bob Sell, Forsyth; seven grandchildren, 14 great-grand children, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and one sister, her husband, Andy, one son, Jimmie, and a grandson, Jimmy.
Services are being conducted by Clinkingbeard Funeral Home, Ava.
