CAMPBELL, Daniel Key 1891-1925

CAMPBELL, BELL, ALIMAN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/4/2011 at 02:25:15

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Monday, February 2, 1925]

DANIEL CAMPBELL
CALLED BY DEATH

Wire Chief of Waterloo Telephone
Exchange Victim of Attack of Peritonitis

Daniel Key Campbell, 34, wire chief of the local Northwestern Bell telephone exchange since October 1923, died at 7 a.m. yesterday in Presbyterian Hospital of Peritonitis, which developed following an operation for ruptured appendix last Thursday evening.

He was a veteran of the world war, having served in the signal corps as a member of the eighty-ninth division of the American expeditionary forces. He saw service in France and Germany, enlisting in 1917.

Decedent was born March 17, 1891, at Russellville, Kentucky. He received his early education in the public schools of that place and continued his studies at Bethel College, in Kentucky, and at Still College, Des Moines.

When a young man, he entered the employ of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, serving in various southern cities until 1915, when he was transferred to the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, at Des Moines. From 1915-1917, Mr. Campbell served in the maintenance and engineering departments of the company.

Returning to civil life at the close of the was, he engaged in the electrical business for himself. In 1923, he re-entered the employ of the Northwestern Bell Company, being assigned to Waterloo.

He was married September 13, 1912, to Miss Hattie Bell Aliman, at Louisville.

Deceased was a member of Pioneer lodge, A. F. & A. M., Des Moines, and of the Tabernacle lodge of Perfection. He also was a member of the Methodist church and of Becker-Chapman post, American Legion.

Surviving besides the widow, is a daughter, Mary 4, at home, 419 Allen Street; also a sister, Miss Mary Brown Campbell, San Antonio, Texas, instructor of music in West Moreland College a brother, William Payne Campbell, county treasurer of Logan County, Kentucky, and his mother, Mrs. D. F. Campbell, Russellville, Kentucky, Two half brothers in Kentucky and two half sisters in Texas also survive.

Friends may view the body this evening and tomorrow at Petersen Bros.' mortuary. The remains will be taken to Des Moines at 7:50 a.m. Wednesday and services will be at 2:30 p.m. from the Dunn Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Masonic plot at Evergreen Cemetery.

Black Hawk Obituaries maintained by Karen De Groote.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen