Dr. Nath "Tom" Thompson Camp

The family will receive friends Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, 10 a.m. until noon at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home in Jasper. A memorial service will be held Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, at noon in the Kilgore-Green Chapel. Richard Lane Stryker III will officiate.

Every day Tom enjoyed the pleasure of interconnected living. He was born in Anderson, South Carolina, on May 14, 1941. Growing up on a farm riding horses, feeding cows, baling hay and walking in the woods. He was married to Judy Mitchell Camp for 36 years. He received his B.A. degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964. He received his M.A. degree in Biology from the University of South Carolina in 1966 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his M.D. degree from the South Carolina College of Medicine in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1970. Dr. Camp studied psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He directed emergency medical care at Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. Camp served the people of Walker County for more than 30 years providing family practice medicine, delivering babies and managing addiction treatment and care. He began going to Honduras leading medical teams more than 20 years ago providing free medical care to thousands of people living on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. He was the founder and leader of the Alabama Honduras Medical and Educational Network (AHMEN). He was one of the founding leaders of the River of Living Water United Methodist Church. Tom was known and loved by thousands of friends in the Jasper region and across the world.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Edmond Weyman Camp Jr., M.D., and Julia Thompson Camp.

He is survived by his wife, Judy Mitchell Camp; children, Nath Thompson Camp Jr. (Brianna Leigh Camp), John Goodwyne Caden Camp and Jackie “Caden” Camp (Vince Morrow); granddaughters, Hailey Terry Camp, Anabel Alice Camp, Savanna Johnson, Saedie Williams, Klaire Williams and Jen Camp Self; grandsons, Cory Morgan Camp, Benjamin Baxley Camp and Klayton Johnson; siblings, Edmond Weyman Camp III, Julia Camp O’Neil and Charles William “Bill” Camp; brother-in-law, John Paul Mitchell; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to River of Living Water United Methodist Church, AHMEN “Honduran Mission.”