On August 8, 2020, the Lord welcomed Charlotte Cron Campbell, loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, Oma and friend. Charlotte or Lolly, as her mother and sister called her, was born August 17, 1937 in Alamo, Texas, the second of four children to Ralph Nicolet and Katherine McDaniel Cron. Charlotte arrived during her sister’s 1st birthday party, which marked the beginning of a lifelong relationship between the closest of sisters and the best of friends.
Her family moved from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, where Charlotte graduated from Jefferson High School. It was also in San Antonio where she met a young soldier from Pennsylvania, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, named Jerry Campbell. They married in September 1955 and promptly moved to Butler, Pennsylvania. It was there that their only child Geraldine (Geri) was born. In 1959, the little family moved back to San Antonio. They joined Bethany Presbyterian Church where Charlotte made special friendships that lasted until her passing. It is also where she helped teach kindergarten with Miss Jacque, one of those lifelong friends. In 1966, the family moved to Houston where Charlotte and Jerry lived for the next 52 years. Charlotte worked for more than two decades in Admissions at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston. Upon her retirement in November 1996, the school honored her by establishing a scholarship in her name. Charlotte spent the last year of her life residing at Waldenbrooke Estates in Bryan to be closer to Geri and Tom. She made some wonderful friends there who encouraged her as her physical condition deteriorated and supported her through the death of her sweet companion, Lady, in May.
Charlotte (and Jerry) enjoyed square dancing, country and western dancing, playing tennis, and games of 42, Train and Chicken Foot with family and friends from church. They loved to travel with friends Bill and David to points west and Jacque and Don to points east, but they especially loved their trips to visit their 3 grandchildren wherever in the world they were currently living. They loved those three “to the moon and back”. Lubbock was another popular destination to visit her sister Carol and her nieces and nephews whom she loved like her own. When she wasn’t traveling, she was scrapbooking about their adventures. She was a wonderful seamstress; she could sketch a dress seen in the store and go home and make it. She loved playing the piano and playing in the handbell choirs of two different churches. She served as an elder at Bellaire Presbyterian Church and at the time of her death, she was a member of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church. Most of all, Charlotte was the ultimate friend. She would give you the shirt off her back if that’s what you needed. She remembered every birthday and every noteworthy occasion in the lives of her friends and family and always with a card. She would always go that extra mile, even when her physical challenges made it difficult.
Charlotte was preceded in death by her mother Katherine and stepfather Paul Lovdahl, her father Ralph and stepmother Thelma Cron, her baby brother Lowell Cron, her granddaughter Patricia Walker, her sister Carol and husband Bob Curlee, her brother Bill Cron, brother-in-law Jim Campbell, sisters-in-law Janny Campbell and Peggy Campbell and her beloved husband of 63 years Marion Morrison (Jerry) Campbell. She is survived by daughter Geri and husband Tom Walker of Bryan and grandchildren Steve Walker and wife Ilana of New York City, Matthew Walker of Bangor, ME, and Mary Kate Riggs and husband Dakota of Mesquite, brother-in-law the Rev. G. David Campbell of Maryville, TN, along with 11 beloved nieces and nephews and their families, the Clayton “grandchildren” and many cherished friends.
Due to Covid-19, a celebration of Charlotte’s life has been postponed until a later date. A brief interment service is scheduled for Tuesday, August 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the Houston National Cemetery. Anyone wishing to attend should be at the American Heritage Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m. but the service will be live streamed through the funeral home’s Facebook page. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to the Houston SPCA or to the University of Houston (memo section “Charlotte Campbell Scholarship”) P.O. Box 867, Houston 77001-0867.
The family wishes to express its heartfelt thanks to the wonderful ICU nurses at the Baylor Scott and White Hospital in College Station who took such wonderful care of Charlotte after her surgeries and to the Hospice Brazos Valley staff who took such loving care of her the last day of her life.
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