Chelsea Ann Campbell

Celebrating the life of Chelsea Campbell would take perhaps longer than the 10,135 days that she was here with us. She touched this world like light itself and is survived by son Liam Campbell, fiancé Paul Hodge, William Campbell, mother Christine Vargo, father Donald Bliss, brother Vaughn Vargo-Alevras and brother Andrew Bliss and innumerable friends.

Born Chelsea Ann Bliss, and nicknamed Chelsea Belle, she was a tenacious force of nature that burned brightly for nearly 28 years.

Chelsea grew up in Huron Township and attended Huron high school. She loved animals, nature, cooking and eating beautiful dishes of food and was a prolific writer.

As a cadet in Civil Air Patrol, she gained survival skills, served on Honor Guard and met her future husband William Campbell.

The love of her life, her son Liam, was born in Petoskey Michigan, where Chelsea lived at the time. She loved volunteering at the Humane Society in Harbor Springs.

As an air force wife she lived in and visited many interesting places around the world including Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Greece, Guam, Japan and Delaware, where she was a preschool teacher.

Chelsea and Liam returned to the Michigan in 2019, where Chelsea worked as a paralegal for Anselmi Mierzejewski Ruth an Sowle P.C. In Bloomfield Hills prior to her diagnosis with Stage 4 colon cancer.

Chelsea had the gift of making people all over the world feel important, valued and connected. The online groups she started and was a part of were a source of friendship, comfort, encouragement and inspiration to so many. She was the founder of the Between the Covers book club, the worldwide Green Thumbs gardening group, and Bliss, her namesake and gathering space for motivation and connecting through positivity. She had a special gift for seeing people who felt unseen. After diagnosis, she joined a web based cancer support group, where she loved and inspired thousands of other cancer warriors. There she met her two good friends Lauren and Katie, who were also young mothers fighting for their lives. The three of them supported and encouraged each other through chemo and sleepless nights; they did life together - all of it: parenting, relationships, hopes and fears, plans for the future and for victory adventures around the world- for almost two years. Lauren is the sole survivor of the trio, carrying the torch for both Chelsea and Katie.

Chelsea was faithful in Christ, she loved her son Liam with all of her heart and also loved her bonus babies, Kayden, Jeremy and Hannah (Paul’s children).

Her poodle pal Maggie was her sweet, constant companion.

Chelsea embraced learning new things and was always willing to try something she had never done before. She had become an amazing gardener; Lilacs were her favorite flower.

She loved Bucky Barns, pirate festivals, Sailor Moon and she was the kindest and most valorous wizard in Slytherin House since Severus Snape.

She lived with, loved, and was loved by Paul Hodge for the last 2 years of her life. The world is a better place for having hosted Chelsea, and she will continue to live on in medical literature and in the work of her treatment team, who credits Chelsea with furthering the understanding of the role that genetic variation plays in individual risk for early onset cancer. The love she gave to this world will never die because it lives in all of us who are left to honor her legacy and carry her torch, until we meet again. In lieu of flowers, please plant something for Chelsea to see from Heaven, or perform a random act of kindness in honor of her.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.hillfh.com for the Campbell family.