Ruth Miriam Elizabeth Olson Campbell
February 20, 1921 — November 22, 2015
Ruth Miriam Elizabeth Olson Campbell 94, born in Chicago, Illinois, February 20th, 1921, passed peacefully at the Methwick Community November 22nd, 2015. She was the only daughter of Swedish immigrants, Anna and Gordon Olson.
Miriam married Alan Campbell at Hyde Park Methodist Church December 27th, 1941. She followed her late beloved husband, Alan, and her family through various communities in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, each time giving all her support to her husband and children. Mom often supported the financial needs of the family through employment as a medical or business secretary. She retired from Crane Company, in Cedar Rapids after 20 years of service. However, she was always engaged as a full time mother.
As God’s humble servant, her life was centered around giving herself to others. She sacrificed her own comfort and wants to help satisfy the wants and needs of others. Often, financial distress caused untold hardship. On occasion there was not enough food to feed the entire family and her mother Anna Olson helped, not only by living with the family, but supporting it by assisting with the children. Mom lived through the depression learning to “make do”. Now through three generations, mom’s Christian love continues to live on.
Shortly after her marriage her husband, Alan, became a Quaker Church supported WWII Conscience Objector (CO). As a CO, Alan took various government positions around the country. Miriam accompanied him.
Miriam is preceded in death by her parents, Anna and Gordon Olson; brothers, Wendell and Paul; and her husband, Alan. She is survived by her five children, Alan Jr. (Colleen) their daughter Dawn, (Nick) and their children Orion and Kepler as well as their son, Benjamin (Amy); Ken (Stella); Jeanne and her daughters Rachel and Lindsey (Dan); Gary (Mira) and their daughter Megan; Ron, (fiancée, April Hedgecoth) and Ron’s daughter Allison, and her children Izak and Navi as well as Laura, Ron’s younger daughter.
Miriam is now with the Lord. Her spirit remains alive in all of those who were part of her life. Services for Miriam Campbell will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 28th, 2015, at St Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She will be interred next to her husband, Alan, in the columbarium at the Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St Paul’s Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Miriam married Alan Campbell at Hyde Park Methodist Church December 27th, 1941. She followed her late beloved husband, Alan, and her family through various communities in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, each time giving all her support to her husband and children. Mom often supported the financial needs of the family through employment as a medical or business secretary. She retired from Crane Company, in Cedar Rapids after 20 years of service. However, she was always engaged as a full time mother.
As God’s humble servant, her life was centered around giving herself to others. She sacrificed her own comfort and wants to help satisfy the wants and needs of others. Often, financial distress caused untold hardship. On occasion there was not enough food to feed the entire family and her mother Anna Olson helped, not only by living with the family, but supporting it by assisting with the children. Mom lived through the depression learning to “make do”. Now through three generations, mom’s Christian love continues to live on.
Shortly after her marriage her husband, Alan, became a Quaker Church supported WWII Conscience Objector (CO). As a CO, Alan took various government positions around the country. Miriam accompanied him.
Miriam is preceded in death by her parents, Anna and Gordon Olson; brothers, Wendell and Paul; and her husband, Alan. She is survived by her five children, Alan Jr. (Colleen) their daughter Dawn, (Nick) and their children Orion and Kepler as well as their son, Benjamin (Amy); Ken (Stella); Jeanne and her daughters Rachel and Lindsey (Dan); Gary (Mira) and their daughter Megan; Ron, (fiancée, April Hedgecoth) and Ron’s daughter Allison, and her children Izak and Navi as well as Laura, Ron’s younger daughter.
Miriam is now with the Lord. Her spirit remains alive in all of those who were part of her life. Services for Miriam Campbell will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 28th, 2015, at St Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She will be interred next to her husband, Alan, in the columbarium at the Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St Paul’s Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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