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Dec. 16, 1930 – Oct. 11, 2015

FERRIDAY — Services for Charles Renzor Campbell, 84, of Lake St. John, who died Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Pentecostals of the Miss-Lou with the Rev. Gary Howington, the Rev. Jeremy Howington and the Rev. Jeffery Germany officiating.

Burial will follow at the Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today and from 11 a.m. until service time Wednesday at the church.

Mr. Campbell was born Dec. 16, 1930, to high school sweethearts, Herod Samuel Campbell and Jewel Chappell Campbell White of Runnlestown. His father died at a very early age, and Albert Louis White became a devoted stepfather throughout his early years and adulthood.

Charles was a graduate of Runnlestown High School in Perry County and a graduate of Jones Junior College in Ellisville. He received a bachelor of science degree from Mississippi Southern University and a master of education degree from Northeast Louisiana University. He attended a number of science institutes during the science revolution of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He began a long teaching and coaching career in 1953 at Roxie High School where he met and married his favorite student and basketball player, Jimmye Faye Duck, with whom he shared an everlasting love for more than 61 years.

He continued his teaching and coaching on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Dedeaux High School in Hancock County with a most successful record, winning a number of games, trophies and awards. It was during these years that he became a mentor and beloved extended family member to a number of ball players and their families. He left coaching in 1958 to become head of the science department at the Fernwood School in Biloxi where he remained until 1966. He then accepted a teaching position at the Ferriday Junior High School in Concordia Parish where he taught eight grade science until his retirement in 1991.

Charles enjoyed hunting and fishing, spending a number of hours fishing on Lake St. John and hunting at various hunting camps. He especially enjoyed spending time at the Fife/Campbell camp, Dixie Outdoors in Tensas Parish. He often helped out at Rushing’s Boot Store and enjoyed time spent with many friends who came in the store.

He attended the Pentecostals of the Miss-Lou with his wife and loved the church family, many of whom he had taught as eighth graders.

Survivors and those left to cherish his memory and early influence include his wife, Jimmye; his adored daughter, Suzie Blanchard and husband, Jerry; one brother, Jimmy Lewis White of Richton; three grandsons, Garrett of Lake St. John, Gerald and Chad, both of Port Allen, La.; three great-grandsons, Cory, Austin and Colt; two great-granddaughters, Courtney and Alexandra; extended family members, the Ladners and Shiyous; and a number of nieces, nephews and former students.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, Garrett, Gerald and Chad and Rayborn Shiyou, Brad Necaise, Lance White, Brad Fife and Cole Cupit.

Honorary pallbearers will be Kenny Fife, Wayne Miley, Mack Moore and the Mize brothers, Ray, Owen and Richard.