George Yeager Campbell

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Born on December 18, 1916 in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He was the tenth oldest child to James Mehard Campbell and Sarah Violet Greenfield.

Description

George Yeager Campbell

George was of average build (154 lbs) and short of stature (5 foot 4 inch). He was clean shaven, had brown hair and grey eyes. He wore glasses in his later years.

Early Years

• Childhood -
• Siblings
  • William Campbell
  • Margaret Cardilla Campbell
  • Robert Smiley Campbell
  • Harry Ellsworth Campbell
  • Charles James Campbell
  • Clara Mae Campbell
  • Ruth Sarah Campbell
  • Katherine Louise Campbell
  • Mary Helen Campbell
  • Pearl Elizabeth Campbell
  • Morey Monroe Campbell

Education

Completed grammar school

Military Service Years

T/ 5 George Yeager Campbell in uniform

T.5 George Yeager Campbell served in the U.S. Army. He began serving on 6 Aug 1941 and was discharged on 5 Oct 1945 (Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, PA). He served in the European Theater as an Airplane Maintenance Technician. (George departed from the US on 16 Jan 1943 and arrived in England on 1 Feb 1943. On 14 Sep 1945 he left Europe and arrived back in the US on 22 Sep 1945.) He participated in the following campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe. He was awarded the WWII Victory Medal, a Service Lapel Button WWII, a Good Conduct Medal, an American Defense Service Medal, an American Campaign Medal, a Combat Infantry Badge, a Bronze Star Medal and the European African Middle Eastern Medal with One Silver Star.

Military Service(s): U.S. Army

Religion

Converted to the Catholic religion when he wed Elizabeth Margaret Timko. His godfather was his brother-in-law Andrew Michael Petrilla.

Family Years

Married Elizabeth Margaret Timko on July 19, 1947 at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio. The couple had six children: two boys: James Joseph, George Michael, and four girls: Sara Anne, Elizabeth Therese, Marjorie Anne, and Dorothy Marie.

The couple had six children;

• James Joseph Campbell
• Sara Anne Campbell
• George Michael Campbell
• Elizabeth Therese Campbell
• Marjorie Anne Campbell
• Dorothy Marie Campbell

After my Aunt Betty married George Yeager Campell that the young couple lived for a time in an attic apartment  atop an old warehouse used by Allied/Burbank Van and Storage Company at 811 East Market Street (Apt. #1) in Warren, Ohio. While some might view the living arrangemet as unique, they happened to live above two of George’s sisters, Clara and Ruth. Also, having no garage, it was not uncommon to find George working on his car in the alley behind the building. Betty and George lived in that attic apartment for a number of years during the time when they began to increase in number. It was in that apartment that both my cousins James Joseph and Sara Anne Campbell lived their first few years. In fact it was the birth of Sara that pushed the couple to look for larger accommodations.

There next residence was with Betty's mother Anna Veronica Berish Timko who was by then living alone at 1640 Oak Street SW in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio after the death of her husband Joseph John Timko. Once again the couple found them living in an attic in the small house. They lived there until the birth of their third child George Michael when they were force to move into a rental house for a period of time. It was 1959, when they rented a half duplex on Maple Street from Anne Klimcvzyk, an old friend of Betty's who also attended her church, Christ Our King. However, they lived their less than a year when the birth of a fourth child pushed them to look for a large house.

It was around 1960, that George and Betty finally made the decision to buy their first house. It was a newly constructed house at 2475 Cranwood Drive, which at the time, was and up-and-coming neighborhood. In fact, it was the house where the family of eight referred to as home.

Residences

During the George's years in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, he lived with family in, rented or owned a total of four houses on the southwest side of the city.

• 624 Fairfield St
• 169 Porter Street NE
• 811 E. Market Street
• 2475 Cranwood Drive

Working Years

Worked as a welder and fork lift driver at Taylor Winfield for ten years. In the early 1940s he worked at American Welding.

Earlier in his career he was a lift driver at the Lordstown Ordinance Depot.

Personal Life

He loved bowling and skating.

He was a member of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 11, Slovak Bowling League and First Catholic Slovak Men’s Union 746

Death

George died from acute massive coronary thrombosis with pulmonary edema on September 19, 1970 at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.

He was buried on September 22, 1970. George's grave is located in Sts. Peter and Paul’s Byzantine Cemetery in North Bloomfield, Trumbull County, Ohio. The Sts. Peter and Paul’s Byzantine Cemetery is located on Hewitt Gifford Road (Rt 84) in Lordstown, Trumbull County, Ohio. This cemetery is approximately 3-4 miles southwest of Warren, Ohio.