Betty L. Campbell

AUBURN – Betty L. Campbell of Auburn and Minot Maine died Jan. 1, 2023 at Clover Health Care in Auburn with her loving family at her side, following a period of declining health. She was 91 years old.

Betty was born in Rangeley, Maine on July 25, 1931, the daughter of Urban and Edna Verrill. After graduating from Rangeley High School, she entered nursing school and became a Registered Nurse. She married Glenwood Campbell in 1952, and eventually settling in Rangeley. She and her husband assisted her parents in running Verrill’s Housekeeping Cabins on Haley Pond in Rangeley for several years, as well as providing nursing services to people in Rangeley. Together they had four sons, Kurt, Matthew, Dean and Thomas. After Glenwood’s early death from cancer in 1967, she and her parents sold the camps and she moved to a house on Beech Street in Auburn, and single-handedly raised her four boys, who at the time ranged in ages from 13 to 4. She took a job at Central Maine General Hospital (now CMMC) eventually becoming a head nurse. She later took a position at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute as an instructor in the Licensed Practical Nursing program, which she held until her retirement in 1996.

It was always common knowledge that when she passed away, it would be said of her “Boy, didn’t Betty do a good job with those boys?” While that was clearly true, she did a good job at everything she put her mind to, whether it was nursing, teaching, golfing or camping. She always wanted to be in the outdoors, winter, or summer. She loved snowmobiling in the winter and camping at Lake Pennesseewassee in the summer. You could never take Rangeley girl out of her, and we loved her stories of going to Alaska to fish for salmon or canoeing the Allagash. In her later years, she enjoyed writing stories with the Senior College writing group. Of course her family was the primary focus of her life, and we will all miss her terribly.

She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her sister Evelyn Bryant of Naples, Fla., and her grandson Christopher Campbell. She is survived by her sister Arlene Fichtner of Rangeley; her sons Kurt and his wife Rachel of Turner, Maine; Matthew and his wife Catherine of Portland, Maine; Dean and his wife Sharon of Minot, Maine; and Thomas and his wife Joanne of Auburn, Maine. She also is survived by eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Family visiting hours will be on Jan. 6, 2023, from 4-6 p.m., at Chandler Funeral Home, 26 West Dwinal Street, Mechanic Falls. Online condolences may be shared with her family at http://www.chandlerfunerals.com Interment will be in the spring in Rangeley.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice whose staff provided such wonderful service to Betty, https://androscoggin.org/donate/ or to Central Maine Community College where she taught for many years https://www.cmcc.edu/foundation/donate/