Irvin Campbell
Published March 15, 2006
Irvin Campbell, 87, died March 15 in Seattle.
He was born March 5, 1919, in Hamburg, Germany.
He moved to England in 1939 from Germany and married Gwen Dyason-Wood in the early 1940s. During World War II, he served in the British Army as an electrical engineer and was in the Middle East campaign.
The couple moved to the U.S. after the war.
In 1970, he was remarried to Georgia Campbell, a schoolteacher. They moved to the Hillsboro area near Portland, Ore. where they lived for 30 years and owned a little restaurant there called the Sunset Humdinger.
Georgia died in December 2004, and in January 2005, he moved to Bainbridge Island to be closer to his daughters.
He enjoyed playing golf and bridge.
He is survived by his ex-wife and friend Gwen Dyason-Wood of Edmonds; his daughters Linda Campbell and her husband Brian Chambers and Gail Campbell, all of Bainbridge Island, and Lesley Wellmaker of California; grandchildren Robin Wellmaker and Richard (Carolyn) Wellmaker of California and Nicholas Campbell of Bainbridge Island; and great-grandchildren Brandon and Megan Wellmaker of California.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. April 2 at the Madison Avenue Retirement Center in Winslow, where he was a resident. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Arrangements are by Acacia Funeral Home.