March 29, 2011

Ida Campbell, formerly of Sapulpa, died peacefully in her sleep on March 22, 2011, in Carrollton, Texas, at the age of 99. During her final days, Ida’s grandson Tom Campbell and his wife Sarah and Ida’s granddaughter Julie Heft took turns sitting by their beloved grandmother’s bedside.

Ida was born October 14, 1911, in Arcadia, Okla. to Thomas E. Kennedy and Ella Faulk Kennedy. She was reared in various farming communities in Oklahoma and graduated from Piedmont High School in 1929. She married Lindsey S. Campbell on December 24, 1936.

Lindsey Campbell passed on August 1984. Ida was also preceded in death by her parents, her twin sister Ada, three other sisters, and three brothers.

Ida is survived by her sons, Eugene Campbell of Dallas and Len Campbell of Sapulpa; and three grandchildren, Tom Campbell of Keller, Texas, Julie Heft of Frisco, Texas, Lindsey Moore of Tulsa, Okla. Other survivors include six great-grandsons, Jamie Wright, Jacob Wright, Alec Heft, Geoffrey Campbell, Seth Campbell, and Spencer Moore. She also leaves behind numerous nieces and nephews.

Ida was awarded a bachelors degree in elementary education from Central State College and a masters from Oklahoma University. She taught elementary school for more than thirty years, 25 of them in Sapulpa Public Schools.

Ida was active in the First Baptist Church of Sapulpa, where, as director of the nursery, she cared for babies for almost 50 years. Ida was among the earliest participants in summer camps at Falls Creek, a place she held especially dear, and she loved the songs in the Baptist hymnal. Her favorite reading materials were her Bible and the Baptist Messenger.

Ida was an OEA Life Member, a member of the Oklahoma Retired Teacher Association, the NEA, Creek County Retired Teachers, Delta Kappa Gamma (Alpha Omega Chapter), and Kappa Kappa Iota (PSI Conclave), and the Lady Lions. She also served in the Women’s Auxiliary of Bartlett of Bartlett Memorial Hospital (Pink Lady), and in the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at First Baptist Church in Sapulpa. Her internment will be private. Donations in her memory may be made to the Children’s Ministry of First Baptist Church in Sapulpa.

The family has entrusted the care of the services to the directors at Green Hill. Interment Green Hill Memorial Gardens.