- Date Of Birth: June 24, 1931
- Date Of Death: September 27, 2014
- State: Idaho
Goldie Dannelle Edgell Campbell was born on June 24, 1931. She was the daughter of Daniel Harrison and Fannie Frances (Zumwalt) Edgell. She was married to Loyd J. Campbell on June 4, 1953, in the Salt Lake City Temple. Goldie passed away September 27, 2014, peacefully at home surrounded by her family in Boise, Idaho of natural causes.
Goldie was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri growing up on a twenty-acre farm with five siblings in which she described as very humble circumstances. She often talked about their “three-holer outhouse”, gardening, canning their food, how her father played the harmonica and was always singing some phrase of a song. She was a reporter for her high school newspaper and a cheerleader in high school and junior college. A quote in her year book described her younger years: “With such blonde hair and such blue eyes; is it any wonder she got all the guys.”
Mother loved school and graduated from Jefferson City Junior College in 1949. Her plan was to work, save money and transfer to BYU to become an elementary education teacher. She traveled to Salt Lake City with her sister Ruby in 1953 with a job waiting for her; transferring from South Western Bell Telephone Company to Mountain Bell. She also worked at AAA Automobile Club. Mom never continued her formal education as she met and married our father. They moved to Boise and she worked at the Statesman Newspaper as a switchboard operator until the birth of her first child. She then started her full-time job as a wonderful, generous and selfless mother. She volunteered in our elementary school, served as the PTA president, was a library assistant at Mountain View Elementary and was a crossing guard at Ustick Elementary.
After our father passed away in November 1982, Mom went to work part-time as a representative for American Greeting Cards; then Hallmark Gift Shop. She went on to work for the State of Idaho, starting with the Department of Labor as a receptionist and advanced to a clerical position in the electrical department. She transferred to Pocatello in 1988 as a secretary in their regional office. She then worked at Idaho State University in the President’s Office until she returned to Boise and worked for the Department of Education, retiring in 1994.
Goldie is survived by her siblings, Ruby Standing Barker, Mary Lee Hill, Daniel (LeNae) Edgell, and Linda (Bill) Carmichael. Also remaining to cherish her memory are her eight children: Nancy (Ray Lyon), John (Penny), Steven (Monica), Karen (Terry Sellman), Lisa (Chris Dennison), Deborah (John Yrazabal), Susan (Sid Rose), and Jody (Scott Kaufman); 30 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren with four more on the way; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Loyd in 1982; her grandson, Jacob Presnell in 1986; sister Nina Berneice and brother Robert Edgell.
The family would like to give a heart-felt thank you to Merri at Heart-n-Home Hospice. We also appreciate the gentle care given to our Mother by the staff at Meridian DaVita Dialysis and by Cynthia Bryson, CNA.
We love you mother! You are the best mother us eight kids could have ever asked for. You are such an example and an inspiration for us to live up to.
