This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Campbell, Wooton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nBB.2ACI/2844 Message Board Post: February 4, 2004 Journal News, Hamilton, Ohio Schuyler W. ‘Red’ Campbell Schuyler W. “Red” Campbell, age 82, recently of Hamilton, Ohio, passed away in Vitas Hospice on Sunday morning, February 1, 2004. He was born in Yerkes, [Perry County] Kentucky, at his parents home on January 22, 1922. He is the son of Willie D. Campbell and Doshia Alice (Wooton) Campbell. He married the “bride of the month”, Roberta Jean (Reed) Troupe at First United Methodist Church on August 28, 1949. They had two children, Steven M. Campbell and Carol A. (Campbell) Cummins. He married Janice (Knaus) Williams on January 2, 1964. She had two children from a previous marriage, Michael and Dennis Williams, which he dearly loved and raised as his own. She preceded him in death in October 1989. As a boy, he attended the Grassy Branch Primary School where he excelled in baseball and rock throwing with his brothers. As a young man, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in October 1942. He was a tail gunner on a B-52 bomber crew, which flew 50+ successful missions over North Africa and the European Front during World War II. He received an Honorable Discharge in September 1945 at the rank of Staff Sergeant with numerous medals, ribbons and commendations, too numerous to list. For over 50 years he was a carpenter and general contractor in Hamilton, Ohio and Southeastern Indiana. He was a master carpenter, well known for his expertise in his work. He was also a mentor, passing his trade on to his son, Steven and grandson, Jason. He retired in 1998. He was a master storyteller who loved a good laugh or a joke. He was a gentleman farmer as well as a grocery and gas station owner in the Aurora, Indiana area. He greatly enjoyed his farm and had a deep passion for fishing and boating. Red made many trips to fish for salmon with his great friend Allan Chadwick. The two often took a local Boy Scout Troop with them on these trips. He was very active with his fellow servicemen, attending his squadron’s annual reunions faithfully. Red was a Mason and a lifetime member of VFW Post 1069, in Fairfield, Ohio. He was a loving and giving father as well as a hero, in war and peace. He had bravery un-paralleled by any, once saving an entire family in Indiana during a tornado by leading them to the safety of a storm cellar through rain, sleet and flying debris. He was an honest man, whose word was his bond. He believed sincerely in family and country. He leaves one brother, Raleigh Campbell and his wife, Gaybe of Cartyhage, Tennessee; three sisters, Molly Bowman and her husband Charles of Hamilton, Ohio, Merlene Sullivan of Whiteville, North Carolina and Mildred Baker of Busy, Kentucky. He also leaves his grandchildren, Ronald Wayne Cummins and his wife Lynnette, Jason Matthew Cummins and wife “Beta” and Ryan Perry Cummins and wife Melissa; two great-grandchildren, Brandon Wayne Cummins and Cami Leigh Cummins and one on the way So’phia Guedes Cummins from Jason and Beta. He leaves five step-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and friends, all of which hold him in high esteem. His parents, two brothers, Paul and Earl E. Campbell Sr. and one sister, Blanche Bowling preceded him in death. He was a wonderful friend, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother and uncle. WE SALUTE YOU! Funeral services will be held Friday, February 6, 2004, at 10:00 a.m. at Weigel Funeral Home, 980 N.W. Washington Blvd. with Rev. Dale French officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Burial Park. Visitation will be Thursday evening from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Washington Lodge #17, F&AM will hold Masonic Services, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the funeral home.