Cloyd F. Campbell

Funeral Services for Cloyd F. Campbell, 91, Butler resident will be held 10:00 A.M. Saturday, November 23, 2013 in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel officiated by Rev. Roger Comstock and burial will follow in the Butler Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Cloyd Franklin Campbell was born December 10, 1921 to Charles G. Campbell and Etta (Grubb) Campbell in Cribbs, OK and passed away Monday, November 18, 2013 in the Clinton Veterans Center. Cloyd was a young boy when he came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon with his parents from Arkansas. His mother passed away when he was very young and his father remarried Flossie and Flossie helped raise him. They made their home in Butler where he attended school. He married the former Miss Iona Roachell on June 25, 1942 in Butler. He soon joined the U.S. Air Force and served his four year stint and after his discharge he returned to Butler to be with his family. Work was hard to find and he chose to re-enlist and went to Lawton, OK and joined the U.S. Army and spent five more years before he was honorably discharged. He then began to farm and lived in Lawton for a short time before moving back to Butler and then Clinton. He worked for the Acme Brick Plant for a short time and then moved his family to Bethany, OK. He then moved to California to work in a Plane Manufacturing Plant for about two years and then he began working in the Canneries as a machine mechanic. He spent 20 years with them and retired. He then took up landscaping and manicuring lawns before moving back to Oklahoma in 1991. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1997, a son, Marvin Campbell, sister, Effie Mathis, brothers, Ed Campbell Don Campbell and his step mother Flossie Campbell. He is a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Choctaw Veterans and a member of the Toastmasters. He is survived by two daughters, Jo Andazola, Butler and Cynthia Campbell, Butler and three sons, Frank Campbell and wife, Wilma, of Fallen, NV Jack Campbell, El Reno, OK and Mike Campbell and wife, Sherry, Stockton, CA; two brothers, Bill Campbell and wife, Sharon, Florida and Charles Campbell, of Pratt, KS. He is also survived by 13 grandchildren, 28 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.