Irene Campbell

She was born on June 13, 1920 in Story, IN, the daughter of Charles and Rhoda(Parsley)Foreman.

In early life Irene worked at Home Laundry and as a cook at Indiana University. She was an ordinary person that used her knowledge from the Great Depression on how to live frugally.

She married Virgil(Bud)Thomas Campbell, Army Sgt. Of the I Company that guarded General Patton’s supplies during WWII and liberated a concentration camp. She became a homemaker where she shined up her house and helped manage a 200 acre farm in Monroe County, now covered by Lake Monroe.

She made cottage cheese, chocolate pies, doughnuts and canned the best veggies, tomatoes, relish, pickles and jelly you’ll ever have in your belly. The rhubarb she grew in her garden made her famous.

She was an excellent seamstress and did beautiful quilting. To pass the time she watched soap operas.

Irene was a member of the Knightridge Pentecostal Church and left us dividends of all the prayers she said in her life.

Survivors include one daughter; Beverly(Michael)DeFord of Unionville, one son; Dennis Campbell of Heltonville, three grandchildren; Thomas(Lorene)DeFord of Rice, MN, Misty Campbell of Bloomington, and Cody(Susan) Campbell of Bedford.

She is also survived by 6 great grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren, one sister; Leona Campbell and many angelic friends that helped her and her family in her later years.

Irene was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one grandson; Douglas Aaron DeFord, six sisters; Gladys Foreman, Beulah Jacobs, Elva Bradley, Jane Deckard, Mabel Grubb and Lela Fickel and one brother; Walter Foreman.

Our gratitude and thanks to the staff of Garden Villa and to Vista Care Hospice for their A+ care and support.

Friends may call on June17, 2013 in Day Funeral Home from 4 – 8 p.m. The funeral service will be held in Knightridge Pentecostal Church on June 18, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. officiated by Rev. Thomas Rhodes and Rev. Russell Elkins. Burial in Knightridge Cemetery.

Flowers are welcome or donations may be made to the Knightridge Pentecostal Church or to Knightridge Cemetery.

“Peace my heart, let the time for parting be sweet. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Stand still, O’ Beautiful End, for a moment and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.”

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