CAMPBELL, Frank - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

The brother of a Veedersburg woman died July 19 from injuries he received when a Benton County highway department truck and a car collided in Benton County. The victim, 53-year-old Frank Campbell of Oxford, was the brother of Mrs. Minnie Rahm of Veedersburg.

  Campbell was a passenger in the highway truck and died enroute to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Lafayette of head injuries. State police investigating the accident said the driver of the truck, 53-year-old Clifford Tillotson of Oxford, failed to yield the right of way to a car driven by 18-year-old Ryan Warren of Boswell at the intersection of two Benton County roads. The truck was struck on the passenger side.

  Tillotson was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for treatment of a broken left arm and leg and chest, neck and shoulder injuries. Warren was treated for lacerations to his right leg.

  Campbell was born May 9, 1930, in Cayuga, the son of frank and Sadie Campbell. In 1959, he married Joy Tillotson in Danville, Illinois, who survives. He was raised and educated in Cayuga and had resided in Oxford since 1960 where he had moved from Perrysville. He was employed by the Benton County Highway Department.

  Other survivors include a son, Joseph Campbell, Montezuma; two other sisters, Paula Padgett and Holly VanDevender of Montezuma; two stepsons, Dean Hueston of Oxford and Joe Hueston of Terre Haute; his mother, Mrs. Sadie Black of Cayuga; three sisters, Mrs. Bert Weir of Cayuga, Mrs. John Hancock of west Lebanon; three half sisters, Mrs. Chet Rice and Mrs. Elvin Craft, both of Cayuga, and Mrs. Howard Hargrove of West Lebanon; and 11 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Glenn.

  Services were conducted Friday, July 22, at Konzelman-Hahn Funeral Home in Oxford with Larry McMillan officiating. Burial was in Oxford West Cemetery.

– thanks so much to S