Feb. 23, 1918 – May 4, 2016

EMERSON, Ark. — Memorial services for Elizabeth Emily Moncrief Hollis Campbell, 98, who died May 4, 2016, at the Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital in Deadwood, S.D., will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Western Baptist Church in Emerson with the Rev. Tommy Parker officiating. 

Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston, La., under the direction of Bailey Funeral Home in Springhill, La. No graveside services are planned.

Mrs. Campbell was born Feb. 23, 1918, on her poppa’s small dairy farm in Ruston, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Moncrief.

She was the youngest of six children.

Mrs. Campbell was the beloved mother of four children and a wonderful registered nurse for 50 years. At the time of her death, she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Lead, S.D. Formerly, she had been an active member of Baptist churches in Natchez, First Baptist Church in Springhill and Western Baptist Church in Emerson.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister; four brothers; her first husband, Sercie Dale Hollis (the father of her four children) of Fountain Hill, Ark.; her youngest child, Delores Ann Hollis Ritchie and husband, Michael, of Monterey; her second husband, John Monroe Campbell of Emerson; her stepdaughter, Nedra Ann Campbell Wynn; and her stepdaughter-in-law, Barbara Campbell.

Survivors include three children, William Dale Hollis and wife, Caren, of Waco, Texas, John Michael Hollis and wife, Carlon, of Austin, Texas, and Mary Alice Hollis of Deadwood, S.D., who was her mother’s devoted caregiver for a number of years; one stepson, Bruce Campbell and wife, Kathy, of Emerson; seven grandchildren, Kathryn Hollis of Los Angeles, Robert Hollis of Houston, Angela Martin and Billy Hollis of Austin, Texas, John Hollis Jr. of Allen, Texas, Byron Ritchie of New Roads, La., and Jeanne Ritchie Weeks of Alexandria, La.; a number of step-grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.