Robert Lee Campbell

Dr. Robert L. (Bob) Campbell died at his home in College Station on Wednesday, March 2 after battling cancer. A visitation is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Monday, March 7 immediately followed by a funeral service at 11 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church in College Station. A memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 18 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Platteville, Wisconsin followed by his burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Platteville.

Dr. Campbell was born on March 4, 1932 in Middle Inlet, Wisconsin. He and his twin brother Richard (Dick) were the youngest of seven children born to Harry and Effie (Mays) Campbell. He attended Brookdale Rural School through the 8th grade and graduated from Wausaukee High School in 1949. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Platteville State College in 1953.

From 1953-1955, he served in the United States Army and was based in France. He earned an M.S. in Agricultural Extension Education from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in June of 1958. In October 1958, he married Patricia (Long) Flanagan and was blessed with three sons, Shawn, Mike and Robert, a daughter, Patty, and a foster daughter, Robin King. In 1965, he joined the School of Agriculture faculty at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville, and completed his doctoral degree in Agricultural Education at the University of Missouri in 1969. Dr. Campbell was the Director of the Agricultural Education Program at UW—Platteville from 1970 until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1990.

Dr. Campbell is a Life Member of both the Wisconsin and National FFA Alumni Associations and a founding member of the Wisconsin FFA Foundation and the Wisconsin Leadership Council for Agricultural Education. In 2004, he was inducted into the Wisconsin FFA Hall of Fame.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Patricia (1991), the mother of his children, by Carol (Sagers), his second wife, his son, Michael (Mike), his brothers Harry, Richard, Bill, George and Harold, and his sister Ethel (Campbell) Porfilio.

Surviving are his wife, Sally Ann (Risinger), sons Shawn (Beverly), and Robert (Heike); daughter Patty Blaszak (Jeff), daughter-in-law Sharon (Mike), foster daughter, Robin King, five grandsons and four granddaughters.

Should family and friends wish to make a donation in Dr. Campbell’s memory, they may be made to one of the following: the Coalition for Life in Bryan, Texas, Wisconsin Right to Life, or the Wisconsin FFA Foundation, Inc.