RITES SET FOR W. A. CAMPBELL

William Alexander Campbell, age 71, of Leighton, route 2, died this morning at 5:25 o'clock
at the home after being ill for two weeks. Deceased was born in Colbert county and had lived here all his life, being a prosperous farmer in the east end of the county for many years. He had been a member of the Primitive Baptist church for 44 years.

Survivors: His widow, Mrs. W. A. Campbell; nine daughters, Mrs. L. W. Sparks, Mrs. Floyde Lowery Mrs. Gorman Mitchell, Mrs. Joe Stanford, Mrs. Arthur Aycock, Mrs. Roy Stockwell, all of Tuscumbia; Mrs. Frank Stanford, Detroit, Mich; Mrs. Curtis Smith and Mrs. Cecil Posey, both of Leighton; a son, Walker Eugene, Leighton; a brother J. J. Campbell; three sisters, Mrs. Minerva Quinn, Mrs. Lou Roden, both of Leighton, and Mrs. Matilda Kent, Tuscumbia, and 12 grand-children.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Valley Grove Baptist church on Joe Wheeler highway by W. E. Calbert, Baptist minister. Burial will be in the Glendale cemetery. Brown-Service, Tuscumbia  Pall-bearers will be nephews.

SOURCE: The Florence Times, 11 Mar 1946, p. 10
 

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