1978-2019
Matthew Phillip Campbell was born on the prairie east of Cheyenne where he lived the first few years of his life. The family moved to Denver where Matt grew up playing flag football, basketball, and guitar. His mother knew he was born for the stage when, in first grade, he played the lead part in Peter Rabbit with panache. His father encouraged him to play guitar. Throughout high school Matt acted in plays, sang in choir, played guitar, and played team sports. As a teenager he worked part-time at the batting cages and at Albertson’s bagging groceries, to buy his first car – a very used Mustang, 4-speed, his dream car at sixteen.
Following high school graduation, Matt went on to college where he excelled at the performing arts, starring in A Man for All Seasons, as the young King Henry VIII, and was awarded a B.A. in Speech Communications from Metropolitan State University in 2003.
Matt worked for more than eighteen years in the engineering consulting business, starting out as an engineering technician and moving on to Business Development Manager at CLT Thompson, where he worked for over eleven years. He served as Associate Business Development Developer at MKK/IMEG Consulting Engineers for nearly eight years. Throughout his career Matthew was engaged on multiple boards & committees for NAIOP, CREW, SMPS, DCN, Downtown Partnership, USGBC, ACG, ULI, among many other associations. “Matt was one of the most well-known and respected Business Development Managers in the Denver Real Estate Development, Design and Construction Industry,” according to his colleagues and friends. “He connected with all of us in such unique ways and continued to inspire all of us by his selfless and servant attitude towards everything. And he was a heck of a lot of fun.” - Jon Myers.
Music was a lifelong calling – in Matt’s genes and upbringing. A talented and soulful singer, guitar player and performer, he entertained locally with his band Red Whiskey Blue, and performed as Vince Neil with his brothers in Motley Crüe tributes.
Matthew was one of a kind – a beautiful and gifted man who was loved for his sincerity, his commitment to the well-being of others, his sense of humor, and his own deeply held feelings not easily expressed. Matthew shared his life and passions with many, including two special loves, Holly and Kimberly, “Matt was the most generous person that I have ever known. He gave so much and expected nothing.” – Holly Bonc Campbell.
Matthew died at home in Denver on Monday morning, August 12, 2019. He is survived by mother, Linda Collison and stepfather Bob Russell, father Phillip Campbell and stepmother Sheila, brothers Carl Campbell and Art Taylor, sister Melinda Taylor and her husband Christopher Burford, grandmother Mary Campbell Magos and her husband Bob Magos, stepbrothers and stepsisters, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and a large family of relatives and friends who loved him dearly.
His song has ended but his melody lingers on.
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