Sarah J Campbell

The services celebrating and honoring the life of Sarah Jo Campbell “Jo” will be held 10:00 A.M. Friday June 6, 2025 in the Christ United Methodist Church with Pastor Kwan Young Kim officiating . Burial will follow in the Hunter Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings, A life celebration home.

Jo was born on October 24, 1946, in Enid, Oklahoma to John Monroe and Nora Jane Brandon Campbell. She passed from this life on May 30, 2025, at the age of 78 years.

She lived her first years in Enid until her parents moved to the family homestead west of Hunter, Oklahoma, where they built a new house and where she was raised. She attended Hunter Schools, graduating Salutatorian from the class of 1964, and during her senior year, she visited the United Nations as a Hunter Methodist Church representative.

As a young adult, she attended college in Kansas and lived there for several years before moving back to the Hunter area, where she ran the grocery store. Later she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1979, she received a degree in accounting from the Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute and began working related jobs. Her son Patrick Adrian Campbell was born in 1980, and in 1984 she returned to Hunter where she raised Adrian on the family farm. She lived in Hunter until she moved to Norman, Oklahoma in 2021 to be closer to her son.

During this time, she worked in Enid as a tax preparer for BKD and was the organist for Christ United Methodist Church. She helped with community activities, including blood drives at the Hunter Community Center and the Pumpkin Patch at Christ Church. She was a member of the Country Club Homemakers and the Friends of Government Springs Park, and she served on the White Cemetery board. She helped with HADA serving meals once a week at the old Hunter school cafeteria and helped when meals were served at the Hunter Community Center once a week. She returned to school and in 2002, she received a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She gave piano lessons to children around the Hunter area, and she was a wonderful cook, winning several awards for her pies and canning at the Garfield County Fair in Extension and Open Class.

She loved traveling and traveled extensively when she could. She experienced sights and culture at destinations that included the glaciers and northern lights of Alaska, fall foliage in New England and Nova Scotia, the Panama Canal, the Pacific Coast, and countries across the European continent (including the ancestral birth home of her maternal grandmother in the Czech Republic and the seat of Clan Campbell in Scotland). She also enjoyed reading, gardening, bird watching, and genealogy.

After she moved to Norman, Jo worked as a tax preparer for AARP while she enjoyed attending life-long learning classes and socializing with friends and family. She was involved with book clubs and a card group and made many friends.

Jo is survived by her son Adrian of Norman, OK, Sister-in-law Ruth Campbell of Hunter, Nephew Timothy Campbell (Laura) of Enid, Nephew Eldon Campbell (Jen) and great Nephew Colton of Garber, and numerous cousins and family friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother (Steven John Campbell).

She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. 

Memorials may be made to White Cemetery Association in Hunter.

Condolences and special memories may be shared with the family online at WWW.BrownCummings.com.