Delta L Campo

Retired director of Baton Rouge Center, Southeastern Louisiana University, School of Nursing, where she served from 1970-1991. She was 80, born Dec. 2, 1929, at Magnolia Plantation, Paincourtville, Assumption Parish. A resident of Baton Rouge since 1957, she died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Visitation at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m. until service at 10 a.m. Private entombment will follow in Greenoaks Memorial Park Mausoleum. She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Susan Campo Brogan, Baton Rouge, and Miriam Campo and Grady Ortis, of Denham Springs; four sons and two daughters-in-law, Joseph LeeRoy and Kim Kearney Campo, Charlotte, N.C., Robin Michael Campo, Charlottesville, Va., Charles William and Gina Puleio Campo, Hahnville, and Mark Adam Campo, Baton Rouge; eight grandchildren, Lauren Michelle Ortis, Port Allen, Aimee Elizabeth Ortis, Denham Springs, Robert Wayne Brogan Jr., Baton Rouge, Helen Siobhan, Hannah Lee and Louis Joseph Campo, Charlotte, N.C., Rachel Marie Campo, Hammond, and Stephen Charles Campo, Hahnville; great-granddaughter, Aubrey Rose Alleman; brother, Felix Joseph "Phil" LeBlanc, Thibodeaux; five sisters, Hilda Marie L. Rodrigue, Destrehan, Annie Rita L. Russo, Belle Rose, Shirley Mary L. Naquin, Destrehan, Lena Josephine L. Jacobsen, Baker, and Stella Elizabeth L. Lopez, Erwinville; 36 nieces and nephews; 44 great-nieces and great-nephews; three great-great-nieces and nephew; and three godchildren, Linda Russo O'Neal, Pierre Part, Lisa Campo, Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Karen Avant Green, Austin, Texas. She was preceded in death by husband, LeeRoy Dennis Campo; parents, Charley Joseph and Clara Marie Crochet LeBlanc, of Klotzville; paternal grandparents, Auguste and Josephine Landry LeBlanc; maternal grandparents, Adolphe and Odelia Landry Crochet; and sister, Ruby Theresa L. Moon, of Klotzville. She was a 1943 graduate of St. Elizabeth Catholic Elementary, Paincourtville; 1947 graduate of Belle Rose High; 1952 graduate of Mather School of Nursing, Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans. She attended Tulane and LSU, received a B.S. in nursing 1964 and master of education in mental health and psychiatric nursing, 1966, both from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. In 1980, she received a Ph.D. in education administration with minors in psychology and sociology from the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. She was a registered nurse from 1952-1996, was licensed and practiced in Louisiana, New York and New Jersey in a variety of clinical, teaching, research associate and administrative positions. Dr. Campo was administrator of the Donaldsonville Mental Health Center and faculty member, Northwestern State University prior to her SLU position. She was a member of the national, state and Baton Rouge Nursing organizations, held numerous offices from 1966-1990. She was a member or life member of Phi Lambda Pi, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Lambda Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, Baton Rouge, Terrebonne and Ascension genealogical societies, was listed in Personalities of the South and Who's Who in American Nursing 1986-87 and honored by her peers in 1998. She was a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Council 3331 Auxiliary. She loved to sing in choirs: St. Elizabeth, St. Gerard, and Teachers College and believed that "to sing is to pray twice."