Funeral services for Floyd Campbell, age 92, of Belle Fourche, SD will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 6, 2012 at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Lemmon, SD. Chaplain David Peterson and Pastor Bob Edwards will officiate. Burial with full military honors by the Smith-Lyman American Legion Post #279 will be in the Greenhill Cemetery at Lemmon.


Special music will be provided by Marilyn Willey.


Serving as casketbearers are Beth Firminger, Tyrell Campbell, Levi Walters, Tyler Campbell, Taggart Campbell and Richard Wheeler. Honorary casketbearers are Bill Johnson, Scott Walters, Kody Campbell and Crystal Johnson.


A memorial has been established to the Jungleer 41st Infantry Division Association.


FLOYD LAVERNE CAMPBELL was born northeast of Lemmon, SD in Adams County, NDon February 22, 1920 to Elmer and Louise (Hodgkinson) Campbell. He grew up on the Campbell farm and attended Orange Township rural school and high school in Fort Yates, ND and graduating from Lemmon High School. He was active in football, boxing as a Golden Glove and was Sports Editor of The Squeezer. He also participated in the Citizen's Military Training Center. Before WWII, he was in the Army National Guard.


Floyd enlisted in the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor on September 9, 1940 in Roseburg, OR. He served in the Pacific Theatre in New Guinea with the "Jungleers" as a heavy weapons specialist where he was wounded in action. His service is distinguished by numerous awards and metals including the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.


Following his discharge from the Army, he returned to Oregon where he and Farrol Cheney were united in marriage on May 25, 1945. Three children were born to this union, Dorothy, Delbert, and Debbie.


Floyd worked in Oregon as an accountant, baker and in a body and fender shop. He began working for the U.S. Postal Service as a rural route mail carrier in Oregon and continued as a postal clerk and organizer in the American Postal Workers Union while living in Arizona. The Campbell's lived in various states including North and South Dakota, Oregon, Arizona and Idaho. While living in Idaho, his wife Farrol passed away on February 24, 1978. While living in Oregon, he was united in marriage to Doris Gabardi. She passed away September 17, 1995 while they were living in Idaho.


Floyd re-connected with a school friend Alvena Anderson and were married in Idaho May 1, 1996. They lived in Clarksdale, AZ until moving to Spearfish. In 2007, they moved to Belle Fourche where they have lived since.


Floyd died peacefully at his home in Belle Fourche on Thursday, June 28, 2012. He will always be cherished and remembered as a man of honor, a devoted husband and loving father. We will miss him dearly and carry on his lessons in our hearts.


Hunting and fishing were his lifelong hobbies as well as woodworking and the building trades, having built homes from the ground up. He was an avid rock hound and had extensive lapidary equipment. Precision was his trademark. He loved to travel and had motor homed to all of the 50 states.


He is survived by his wife, Alvena Campbell, Belle Fourche, SD; one son and daughter-in-law, Delbert and Brooke Campbell, Belle Fourche, SD; two daughters and one son-in-law, Debbie and Larry Daubs, Roy, UT and Dorothy Baehr, Laguna Niguel, CA; step daughter Barbara Beals and her husband Ken Coons, Paradise, CA; nine grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; three brothers, Dale Campbell, Keldron, SD, Don (Naomi) Campbell, Cottonwood, AZ and Stanton Campbell, Seattle, WA; and numerous nieces and nephews.


He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Farrol and his wife, Doris; son-in-law, Walter Baehr, sisters, Edna Anderson and Mildred Campbell, and brothers, Raymond Campbell and Robert Campbell.


Visitation will be on Thursday July 5 from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon and one hour prior to services at the church on Friday morning.