Mary Lee (Wollard) Campbell

November 5, 1906 – May 8, 1996

Mary Lee Campbell, 89, resident of Vinita, Oklahoma, died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday in a Tulsa hospital where she was taken after a crash the previous week west of Bernice in Delaware County, She was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck by a car that went left of center.

Born in Perry, Oklahoma, on November 5, 1996, she was the daughter of Gustavus Clemens and Mary Miller Smith Wollard. She was a graduate of Perry high school and Phillips University at Enid. For the next four years she taught the intermediate grades in the Perry Public schools.

On June 16, 1932, she and Oliver Benton Campbell were married at her parents home in Perry, Oklahoma. O. B. was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was managing editor of the Perry Journal at the time of their marriage. The couple made their first home in Medford, Oklahoma, where he assumed the position of news editor followed by managing editor of the Medford Patriot-Star. In the fall of 1935, O. B. became publisher of the Vinita newspaper and remained in this position until his retirement in 1969. He died in 1992.

Mary Lee was very active in her church and community. In 1973 she was named to the Oklahoma governor’s committee on children and youth for a three-year term.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents.

Survivors include the couple’s children: a son, John C. Campbell of Washington, D. C.; and a daughter, Patricia Ann Hoover of Tacoma, Washington.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church in Vinita. Burial will be at the Fairview Cemetery, Vinita.