Orajane Campbell 1918 - 1945

CAMPBELL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/22/2016 at 20:46:26

Sioux City Journal
4 July 1945

Miss Orajane Campbell, 27, 112 Casselman Street, died Tuesday morning in a hospital following an illness of one day.

She was born in Sherwood, N.D., January 30, 1918, and came to Sioux City in 1930. She attended school here and was graduated at Fruitvale, Colo., in 1938. She attended Morningside College.

She was employed by the Wincharger Corporation until she enlisted in the Waves September 11, 1943.

Miss Campbell, a seaman second class, was given her discharge at Great Lakes training station March 17, 1944. Returning to Sioux City she had been employed in the government supply depot (Warnock building).

She was a member of the Methodist Church, Zela lodge 550, Rebekah lodge; the American Legion and the disabled Veterans of America.

Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Walter Dunn, and her step-father, Walter Dunn, both of Sioux City; a brother, Arlo Campbell of Tacoma, Washington, two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Carver of Sioux City and Mrs. Leota Knowlton of Missouri Valley; two nieces and two nephews.

The body is in the W. Harry Christy chapel, 711 Myrtle Street.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Whitfield Methodist Church. Rev. Harry Burns will officiate and interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

The American Legion will have charge of a graveside ritual and the pallbearers will be taken from the Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 13, of which Miss Campbell was sergeant-at-arms. They will be L.D. Dickens, Frank J. Tedford, Miss Edna Groetkin, Miss Dorothy Staber, Everett L. Sager and Albert Begnoche.