Beverley Campbell

Beverly Jean Campbell, 76, of Carl Junction passed into Heaven on April 3, 2024, at Webb City Health and Rehab Center after a lengthy chronic illness, with her daughter Lisa and granddaughter Michaela by her side. She was born in the family home in Anderson, Missouri on February 16, 1948, to Arthur Hugh (Spud) Penn and La Verna Faye Penn. She grew up on the family farm in Anderson and then married John Doubledee in 1965, moving with him to Jasper County, where she graduated from Carl Junction High School. With John she had three children, son Timothy Doubledee (Sandy) of Altenburg, Missouri and Daughters Lisa Kent (Chris) of Joplin and Tara Wegener, formerly of Webb City (Deceased). In 1976 she married Ronald Campbell, with whom she had a son, Todd Campbell, who dutifully and lovingly cared for her in home until her relocation to the Rehab Center.

Beverly worked outside the home to help support her family her entire adult life, starting with a trailer manufacturer in Anderson, Morton Booth Cabinetry in Webb City and finally the last decades of her working life for LaBarge Industries (now known as Ducommun) until suffering a series of strokes that prevented her from working any longer. In her working career, Beverly was proudest of her contribution, while working for LaBarge, to manufacturing wiring harnesses that were used in the first NASA Space Shuttle and all of the shuttle programs, as well as for many other weapons systems used in our national defense. Her son Tim was proud to tell all his fellow soldiers serving in Desert Storm that his mother had a hand in many of the wiring systems that made their tanks and personnel carriers operational.

Beverly never stopped her primary duties of loving mother and homemaker, even though she worked full time in factories, enlisting and training her children to keep up with the demands of maintaining a household, skills which have served them well into adulthood. Beverly was most happy, while experiencing every other emotion that comes with the task, with caring for her children and grandchildren, several of whom she helped raise, ending with adopting her granddaughter Armani Campbell soon after she was born She taught all of her kids how to read at a very early age, even before they went to school, helping them to sharpen their minds and entertain themselves in her absence. She taught them to love music of any kind, and to dance and sing int eh face of life’s challenges, and to laugh at the absurdity of the things beyond our control that vex most people. She was fiercely loyal to her kids, to a fault, providing temporary sanctuary when necessary, and never leaving their side during the most challenging of times in their own lives. She literally gave everything she had to her kids.

Beverly was of the Christian faith, raised in the reorganized Latter-Day Saints, and last attending church regularly with her daughter Tara at College Heights Christian Church. She was most certainly looking forward to joining her Daddy and Momma and Tara at Jesus’ side. Beverly is survived by her husband, Ronald Campbell, of the home in Carl Junction, her sons Tim and Todd, her daughter Lisa, grandsons Adam Kern, Cameron Campbell, Caleb Koeshall, and Austin Nichols, granddaughters Michaela Eichelberger and Armani, great-grandchildren Adeline and Jensen Eichelberger, and a brother Dale (Rhonda) Penn, of Springfield, as well as countless cousins, nieces and nephews.

Beverly was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, Donna Lee Robbins, Rita LItchfield and Dorothy Barker, and her daughter, Tara.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday April 15, 2024, at 1:00 P.M., at Simpsons Funeral Home in Carl Junction, Mo.