BESSIE LOU AMMONS ELAM CAMPBELL | MUNFORD – 70, retired department store clerk, died Sunday morning at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis after a long illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Munford Funeral Home with burial in Helen Crigger Cemetery . She was a member of First Baptist Church of Atoka and a member and past matron of Munford Chapter Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Campbell, the widow of Joe Edward Campbell, leaves three daughters, Mrs. Pauline Farraro of Oxnard, Calif ., Mrs. Clara Jo Bouchard of Brunswick, Maine, and Mrs. Wanda Mae Turnbow of Adamsville; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Sandy L. DeHann of Grand Forks, N. D., and Mrs. Bobbie Mitchell of Memphis; a son, Melvin Douglas Elam of Covington; a stepson, James Keith Campbell of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Goldie Glover of Atoka, eight grandchildren and three great- grandchildren.
[ Bessie Lou Ammons Elam Campbell | The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn; 30 Jul 1990]
Family of Bessie Lou Ammons Elam Campbell
Great Grand Parents:
- William Henry Ammons (1825-1899)
- Mary H Boyte (1825-1880)
Grand Parents:
- David Thomas Ammons (1850-1929)
- Mary Francis Macon (b. 1846)
- Charles C Byrd (1852-1925)
- Sarah Serilda F Timbs (1855-1922)
Father: David Oscar Ammons (1873-1961)
Mother: Mary Frances “Mollie” Byrd (1877-1944)
Spouses:
- David Forrest Elam (1918-1960)
- Joe Edward Campbell (1923-1900)