Delores Jean Campbell-Meadows

Delores Jean Campbell-Meadows of Palo Alto, California passed away on May 25, 2008, at the age of 78, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.   While visiting in Ottumwa Delores experienced sudden cardiac arrest and was air lifted to Des Moines.

Delores was born May 28, 1929, in rural Wapello County, to Mack and Lola Rudd Campbell. She was their only child.  She attended Oak Grove School in Davis County and Stuart School in Ottumwa. She was a 1946 graduate of Ottumwa High School and attended the University of Iowa.  She had been employed by Iowa-Illinois Gas Company in Ottumwa.

Delores married L. Thomas Meadows on August 19, 1951 at the Wesley Methodist Church in Ottumwa.  Upon her husbands return from service in Germany they relocated to California.  She had been a resident of Palo Alto, California since 1962.  She was an active member of the United Wesley Methodist Church of Palo Alto and served in several church capacity roles over the years.  She loved to travel and often returned to Iowa twice annually.

Delores was a full-time housewife until her children graduated from High School and then was employed as an accountant at Bay Microfilm Inc. in Palo Alto for several years until she retired in 1988.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas and sons; Craig with wife Shirley and children Erin and Wesley, Clark with wife Kathy and children Megan and Jeffrey, and daughter Cynthia Ahrendsen and child Stephanie.  She was preceded in death by her parents and Cynthia’s son.

Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Wagler’s Funeral Home in Bloomfield with Pastor Jim Matheney officiating and Judy Matheney vocalist.  Sermon Pastor, John Chadwick, Pastor of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Knoxville, Iowa.

Preceding the service will be a visitation at the funeral home with the family present from Noon until the time of service.  Burial at the Shaul Cemetery will follow the service.

Delores will be buried next to her parents at Shaul Cemetery in Ottumwa. 

Honorary Pallbearers will be Dean Eakins, Donald Eakins, Ireland McElderry, Ronnie Shockley, Loren Hagedon, Roger Shockley and Doug Meadows.

Casket bearers will be Jeffrey Meadows (Clark’s son), Nolan Eakins, Mike Rucinski, Gary Hagedon, Blake McElderry, Jeffrey Meadows, Jimmy Meadows and David Meadows.

Memorials may be made to the Drakesville United Methodist Church.