Warren Martin Campbell

Visitation will be on Friday, May 9th, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall in the Chapel of the Oaks.

The funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 10th, at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Oaks at Eternal Valley with Pastor Darren Pollock officiating. Burial will follow the service.

Warren was born on June 29, 1924, in Montevideo, Minnesota, where he was raised by his loving parents, Donald Thomas and Elma Smith Campbell. He served in the 89th Infantry Division in Europe in World War II, during which time he corresponded with his future wife, Mary Christine Urner. Warren and Mary were married on August 17, 1947, in Pasadena, California. They celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in 2022.

Warren received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and in 1961 joined the faculty at California State University Northridge. At CSUN, he was a founding member of the Urban Studies Program and co-director for many years of the Master in Public Administration Program, teaching his last class in 2019 at 95 years old. He took great pride in his vital role in his wife Mary’s school, Magic Years Nursery School, founded in 1965 and soon approaching its 60th anniversary.

Warren is preceded in death by his oldest daughter, Lynn Christine Campbell, and by his wife Mary as well as his brothers Donald and Hervey and his sister Dorothy Peterson. He is survived by his brother Gale Francis Campbell, his daughters Jill Catherine Campbell and Alice Campbell León, his son-in-law Percy Raúl León, and his grandsons Samuel León and Forrester Hammer.

Memorial donations may be given to the Professor Warren Campbell Scholarship -- https://engage.csun.edu/CampbellEndow -- or the West Valley Food Pantry.