Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell, Ruth, was born November 28, 1910 in Merigold, Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Henry Edgar Sanders, originally from Ecorse, Wayne County, Michigan and Wilhilmena J. Cranker Sanders, originally from Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Ruth was born in Merigold, but reared in Kentwood, Tangipahoa, Louisiana. She was the youngest of five children and lived in a house which also contained two loving aunts, Adelaide Victoria Sanders, Aunt Addie; and Amelia Eugenia Sanders, Aunt Emily. Ruth was raised with special education from Aunt Addie, who was a teacher and wearing handmade cloths from Aunt Emily, who was a seamstress. She was raised in the Presbyterian church, where her mother played the piano. Her father held a variety of jobs with the railroad, tried farming and was an inventor who held several patents.
Ruth's paternal grandparents were Thomas James Sanders, originally from Crawley End, Essex, England, then living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan; and Victoire Drouillard, Victoria, originally from Canada, then living in Northville, MI. Ruth's maternal grandparents were Luther Gates Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio and Sophia Pfann Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.
After finishing high school, Ruth attended Holmes Junior College. When disembarking the train from Kentwood, Otho Ray Campbell, Ray, told his friend, "that is the girl I am going to marry." They did marry in 1929. After marriage, they lived in West, Holmes, Mississippi where Ray held a variety of jobs for Jones Hand. After her first child, Ruth Ray, she experienced severe postpartum illness, but she did eventually recover. When Ray was transferred to Durant with the Hand Ford Motor Company, they made their lifelong marital home in Durant. They built a house on HW 51 and over the years, added a larger house at the back of the lot and obtained a third house on the front of the lot. They rented the two small houses at the front of the of lot throughout their time in Durant. Ruth managed the rental property, as well as maintained the interior between occupants.
After Ray got the Standard Oil station, Ruth started working at the station while Ray was out on the truck. They eventually sold the station and bought a Western Auto store. Ruth worked as a sales clerk for the time they had the store. She also made buying trips and kept inventory. Their second child, Donald Berlin Campbell, was born in Durant.
Ruth moved to the Baptist church with her husband and they attended the First Baptist Church of Durant. Ruth sewed cloths for her daughter, Ruth Ray, on her treadle Singer sewing machine, as Ruth Ray stood behind her waiting for the finished garment. Ruth was also a superb Southern Cook. She was known for her fried chicken, green beans and new potatoes, coconut cake and ice cream cakes. During their time at the Western Auto, they went home at lunch every day to watch "As the World Turns". When Ruth Ray had moved overseas, she asked them to watch the soap and let her know what was happening. The faithfully watched the soap until Ray's death.
After their daughter Ruth Ray married Woodrow Lejune Dinstel, Woody, Ruth Ray and Woody moved overseas. Ruth and Ray's visits with Ruth Ray were limited to the annual summer visits. While Ruth Ray lived in England, once Ruth and Ray visited and decided they had never been so cold in all their lives, they would wait on Ruth Ray's annual visits. After Ruth Ray and family returned to United States, they did make trips to Texas. Several Christmas Eves the Western Auto was closed and they would drive Christmas to spend with Ruth Ray her family. Several Christmas Eves the Don Campbell family and the Woody Dinstel family waited for Ruth and Ray to close the Western Auto and return home, where there were 6 grandkids and 6 adults in a two bedroom house.
After Ruth and Ray's retirement, they looked forward to coffee at the Durant motel. They also had many lifelong friends made during their business and social life in Durant. Ruth also began painting lessons with Mrs. Young in Winona, Montgomery, MS. She progressed from watercolor to tempera to oil. She enjoyed many lessons and painted many land scape, birds, and floral scenes. She even painted a special request for her daughter, of Kilchurn Castle, on Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
After the death of her husband, she sold her property in Durant and moved back to West, MS. She lived in the home in which her husband had been raised. Ruth Ray and Woody, had purchased the home after the death of Vashtie Elizabeth Campbell, her mother in law. Ruth lived there with Ruth Ray and Woody visiting from Jackson, MS, and her going back with them to Jackson to visit. After Woody's retirement, Ruth Ray and Woody moved permanently to West and they lived together. Ruth occupied the eastern end of the house and Ruth Ray and Woody occupied the western end of the house. The kitchen was the common area, where they spent many happy hours together.
Some of Ruth's favorite things, Co-Cola, bread, chocolate covered ice cream bars, reading and current events, hymns, cats. She was especially close to her brother, Donald Eugene Sanders.
Ruth had many lifelong friends, whom she survived. She did make many new friend after her move to West. The final week of her life was spent in the Long Term Care Facility in Durant. She passed away June 28, 1999, in Durant, Holmes, MS.
Ruth was very proud of her son, Captain Donald Berlin Campbell, USN retired. She loved his choice of bride, Martha Anne O'Boyle Campbell, as her own daughter.
Funeral Services were held at the West Presbyterian church, where she was a member. Jerry Tate officiated and Southern Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. She was buried next to her husband in the Mizpah Cemetery, Durant, Holmes, MS.
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RUTH SANDERS CAMPBELL
Memorial services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 30 at West Presbyterian Church. Officiating minister was Rev. Jerry Tate. Burial was in Mizpah Cemetery in Durant with Southern Funeral Home of Durant handling arrangements.
Mrs. Campbell died Monday, June 28, 1999 of heart failure at Methodist Healthcare of Middle Mississippi in Lexington.
A native of Merigold, she was a homemaker, and a member of West Presbyterian Church. She attended Holmes Junior College for a year.
She was the widow of O. R. Campbell.
Survivors include: son, Captain (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell, USN of Gaithersburg, Maryland; daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: Doug Aldridge, Robort Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were: James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Memorial may be made to French Camp Academy, French Camp, MS
The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
July 1, 1999
Ruth S. Campbell
Graveside services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Mizpah Cemetery followed by a memorial services at 11 a.m. at the West Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Campbell died June 28, 1999 at the Methodist hospital of Middle Mississippi in Lexington. She was a member of the West Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; a son, Capt. (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell USN of Gaithersburg, Md.; grandchildren, Edward Ray Dinstel of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Hart of Tulsa, Okla., Amy Andre of Jarreau, La. Commander Donald B. Campbell Jr. USN, Corpus Christi, Texas, Lt Commander Joseph A. Campbell of Norfork, Va., Richard O. Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., and 12 great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Jerry Tate officiated.
Pallbearers were Doug Aldridge, Robert Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Southern Funeral Home of Durant was in charge of arrangments.
Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
The Star Herald July 1, 1999
Memom's Chocolate Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 cup sifted enriched flour or ¼ cup corn starch
2 (1oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 cup milk
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tbsp butter
½ tsp vanilla
1 baked pie shell
3 egg whites
6 tbsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, sugar and salt, gradually add milk. Add chopped chocolate squares. Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Add small amount to yolks then stir into hot mixture. Cook 1 minute stirring constantly. Add butter, vanilla. Cool slightly. Pour in pie shell.
Beat egg whites. Add sugar one Tbsp at a time. Beat and form stiff peaks. Make sure meringue goes to edges and seals to prevent shrinking. Bake 12-15 minutes.
Memom's Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 ¼ cup milk
¾ stick butter
1 tbsp meal
1 tbsp flour
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 cup Bakers Angel flake coconut
1 9 inch baked pastry shell
In mixer, combine all the ingredients until mixed. Pour in uncooked pie shell. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. "(Shake when removed)" "Use a big pan-fruit pie pan."
Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Frosting
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sifted flour (sift before measuring)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 cups finely chopped apple
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 cups sugar
1 ½ cup salad oil
2 eggs
Caramel Frosting
¾ cup oleo
1 ½ cup brown sugar
½ cup evaporated milk
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
I don't remember the directions, probably like making any homemade cake.
Memom's Ice Cream
Johanna Ruth Campbell
½ gallon whole milk
2 large can Pet milk
6 eggs
2 ½ cup sugar
1 tbsp flour
Pinch of salt
1 can Eagle Brand milk
2 tbsp vanilla
Put whole milk and Pet milk in heavy boiler and cook until mixture coats the spoon. Combine eggs, sugar, flour, and salt; pour into milk mixture and cook until it starts to thicken. Remove from heat and cool, add Eagle Brand milk and vanilla. Put in Freezer and freeze. Fresh fruit can be added to this mixture.
Memom's Never Fail Chocolate Icing
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cup sugar
¼ cup white corn syrup
½ cup milk
½ cup shortening
3 tbsp cocoa
¼ tsp salt
Mix ingredients and cook to soft ball stage. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Cool slightly.
Beat to proper consistency for icing a cake. This recipe makes enough to
cover two layers.
Pralines
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup cream
1 cup maple syrup
2 cups nut-meats
Boil the sugar, maple syrup and cream together till a little dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (238 degrees F) Cool and beat till creamy; add the nuts and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on greased paper or plates.
Memom's Refrigerator Rolls
Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell
2 cups milk
½ c scant sugar
½ cup shortening
1 pack dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
6 cups flour
2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp soda
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald milk, pour over sugar and shortening, cool to lukewarm. Add yeast. Add 4 cups flour. Let dough rise about 2 hours or until double in bulk and full of bubbles. Combine soda salt and baking powder with 1 cup flour. Add to dough. Add remaining flour. Turn dough out onto well-floured board. Knead well. Place in greased bowl. Refrigerate overnight. Roll out dough and cut. Let rise 2 hours. Bake at 300 degrees oven for 20 minutes.
Bran Muffins
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups bran
1 egg
1 cup milk
½ cup molasses
2 Tbsp fat, melted
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, and add the bran. Beat the egg and add to it the molasses and soda stirred together; beat slightly and add with the milk and melted shortening to the dry ingredients. Beat well, turn into well greased muffin pans and bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
Plain Coconut Cake
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 CUP BUTTER
1 CUP SUGAR
2 EGGS
1/2 CUP MILK
1 CUP COCOANUT FRESH OR DRIED
½ LEVEL TEASPOON SALT
2 cups flour
2 level teaspoons Rumford Baking Powder
Beat the butter with half the sugar; add the well beaten eggs and remaining sugar, then the mild and cocoanut and, lastly, the flour, salt and baking powder sifted together. Beat well, and bake either as a loaf or layer cake. If fresh-grated cocoanut is used, a little less milk will probably be required.
Tory Pound Cake
Johanna Ruth Campbell
6 Eggs
1 ½ cup butter
3 cups sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp lemon extract
4 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ½ cups buttermilk
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs all at once, beating well, about 2 – 3 minutes. Blend in flavorings. Combine dry ingredients; add alternately until thoroughly combined. Spread evenly in 2 greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pans or 1 greased 10x4 inch tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 1 hour 10 minutes for loaf pans, 1 hour 20 minutes for tube pan or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cook completely. Makes 16 servings
Ambrosia Filling
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sugar
½ cup margarine
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup canned milk
1 cup sweet milk
Pinch of soda
Cook in a deep pot till soft ball stage.
Remove from heat and add
1 box coconut
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins
Peel of 2 oranges, grated
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained
1 tsp vanilla
Beat will it thickens, then add
juice of 2 oranges
Spread between layers and on top of German Chocolate Cake layer
Ice Box Rolls
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 quart sweet milk, scalded (just bring to a boil)
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 package yeast
2 tbsp tepid water
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 heaping tsp baking powder
Scald milk and stir in shortening and sugar, let dissolve. Add yeast to tepid water and dissolve. When milk mixture is lukewarm, add yeast mixture. Stir in enough flour to make a batter like cake batter. Let rise to about double, about 2 hours in a warm place. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. Add flour into batter and work up. Add more flour as needed, having dough so that it can be handled without sticking to hands. Cover dough and place in ice box, or make out. After making out rolls, pick up roll, dip it in melted butter and place in pan to rise. After making rolls, let rise 2 hours and bake at 400 degrees. Watch carefully, they will burn easily. Dough can be in refrigerator up to 4 days.
Colonial Gingerbread
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup molasses
¾ cup buttermilk
½ cup sugar
½ cup margarine
1 egg
1 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Blend ingredients together and beat for 3 minutes. Pour in 9x9x2 pan and bake for hour.
Scotch Shortbread
Rumford Complete Cookbook
1 ½ cups flour
¾ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 oz blanched almonds
Sift the flour twice and rub in the butter with the hands: add the sugar and knead and mix, either on a board or in a bowl, till a dough is formed. Do not add either egg or milk, as the butter softens from the mixing and will bind the ingredients together. Roll the dough rather thinly, cut into rounds or ovals and press a few almonds into each. Place on a flat baking pan, and bake in a slow oven till golden brown.
Praline Patties
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1 ½ cup white sugar
3 tablespoons dark corn syrup
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cup pecans
Combine sugar, syrup, and milk, cook to soft ball stage. Cool 10 minutes, add vanilla and beat 2 minutes. Add pecans and beat until looses gloss. Drop by tablespoon full. Add teaspoon hot water if gets too hard to drop.
Easy Chocolate Fudge
Johanna Ruth Campbell
4 cup sugar
1 (14oz) evaporated milk
1 cup butter
1 (12oz) package semi sweet chocolate pieces
1 pint marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Butter sides of a heavy 3 quart saucepan. In it, combine sugar, milk, and butter. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236), stirring frequently. Remove from heat and add chocolate, marshmallow cream, vanilla, and nuts. Beat till chocolate is melted and blended. Pour into buttered 9x9x2 inch pan.
Cherry Cream Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
Melt 2 tablespoons butter - add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup flour.
½ teaspoon salt,
2 cups milk – cook 20 minutes,
Stir into 2 eggs yolks and cook 2 minutes longer,
Add 2-¼ teaspoons of vanilla.
Place drained cherries in cooked pie shell and pour cream filling over them – top with egg whites beaten stiff.
Custard Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 pie shell, unbaked
2 ½ cup milk
4 eggs
6 Tbsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 can flaked coconut
Dash nutmeg
Prepare pie shell and refrigerate 3o minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat milk till it bubbles around edge. Beat eggs slightly and brush a little over pie shell. Add sugar and salt to eggs. Gradually add hot milk stirring constantly. Put in pie shell, sprinkle in coconut and nutmeg. Bake 10 minutes and reduce heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 minutes longer.
Ruth's paternal grandparents were Thomas James Sanders, originally from Crawley End, Essex, England, then living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan; and Victoire Drouillard, Victoria, originally from Canada, then living in Northville, MI. Ruth's maternal grandparents were Luther Gates Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio and Sophia Pfann Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.
After finishing high school, Ruth attended Holmes Junior College. When disembarking the train from Kentwood, Otho Ray Campbell, Ray, told his friend, "that is the girl I am going to marry." They did marry in 1929. After marriage, they lived in West, Holmes, Mississippi where Ray held a variety of jobs for Jones Hand. After her first child, Ruth Ray, she experienced severe postpartum illness, but she did eventually recover. When Ray was transferred to Durant with the Hand Ford Motor Company, they made their lifelong marital home in Durant. They built a house on HW 51 and over the years, added a larger house at the back of the lot and obtained a third house on the front of the lot. They rented the two small houses at the front of the of lot throughout their time in Durant. Ruth managed the rental property, as well as maintained the interior between occupants.
After Ray got the Standard Oil station, Ruth started working at the station while Ray was out on the truck. They eventually sold the station and bought a Western Auto store. Ruth worked as a sales clerk for the time they had the store. She also made buying trips and kept inventory. Their second child, Donald Berlin Campbell, was born in Durant.
Ruth moved to the Baptist church with her husband and they attended the First Baptist Church of Durant. Ruth sewed cloths for her daughter, Ruth Ray, on her treadle Singer sewing machine, as Ruth Ray stood behind her waiting for the finished garment. Ruth was also a superb Southern Cook. She was known for her fried chicken, green beans and new potatoes, coconut cake and ice cream cakes. During their time at the Western Auto, they went home at lunch every day to watch "As the World Turns". When Ruth Ray had moved overseas, she asked them to watch the soap and let her know what was happening. The faithfully watched the soap until Ray's death.
After their daughter Ruth Ray married Woodrow Lejune Dinstel, Woody, Ruth Ray and Woody moved overseas. Ruth and Ray's visits with Ruth Ray were limited to the annual summer visits. While Ruth Ray lived in England, once Ruth and Ray visited and decided they had never been so cold in all their lives, they would wait on Ruth Ray's annual visits. After Ruth Ray and family returned to United States, they did make trips to Texas. Several Christmas Eves the Western Auto was closed and they would drive Christmas to spend with Ruth Ray her family. Several Christmas Eves the Don Campbell family and the Woody Dinstel family waited for Ruth and Ray to close the Western Auto and return home, where there were 6 grandkids and 6 adults in a two bedroom house.
After Ruth and Ray's retirement, they looked forward to coffee at the Durant motel. They also had many lifelong friends made during their business and social life in Durant. Ruth also began painting lessons with Mrs. Young in Winona, Montgomery, MS. She progressed from watercolor to tempera to oil. She enjoyed many lessons and painted many land scape, birds, and floral scenes. She even painted a special request for her daughter, of Kilchurn Castle, on Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
After the death of her husband, she sold her property in Durant and moved back to West, MS. She lived in the home in which her husband had been raised. Ruth Ray and Woody, had purchased the home after the death of Vashtie Elizabeth Campbell, her mother in law. Ruth lived there with Ruth Ray and Woody visiting from Jackson, MS, and her going back with them to Jackson to visit. After Woody's retirement, Ruth Ray and Woody moved permanently to West and they lived together. Ruth occupied the eastern end of the house and Ruth Ray and Woody occupied the western end of the house. The kitchen was the common area, where they spent many happy hours together.
Some of Ruth's favorite things, Co-Cola, bread, chocolate covered ice cream bars, reading and current events, hymns, cats. She was especially close to her brother, Donald Eugene Sanders.
Ruth had many lifelong friends, whom she survived. She did make many new friend after her move to West. The final week of her life was spent in the Long Term Care Facility in Durant. She passed away June 28, 1999, in Durant, Holmes, MS.
Ruth was very proud of her son, Captain Donald Berlin Campbell, USN retired. She loved his choice of bride, Martha Anne O'Boyle Campbell, as her own daughter.
Funeral Services were held at the West Presbyterian church, where she was a member. Jerry Tate officiated and Southern Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. She was buried next to her husband in the Mizpah Cemetery, Durant, Holmes, MS.
Your stories retold as well as observations of your eldest granddaughter :)
RUTH SANDERS CAMPBELL
Memorial services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 30 at West Presbyterian Church. Officiating minister was Rev. Jerry Tate. Burial was in Mizpah Cemetery in Durant with Southern Funeral Home of Durant handling arrangements.
Mrs. Campbell died Monday, June 28, 1999 of heart failure at Methodist Healthcare of Middle Mississippi in Lexington.
A native of Merigold, she was a homemaker, and a member of West Presbyterian Church. She attended Holmes Junior College for a year.
She was the widow of O. R. Campbell.
Survivors include: son, Captain (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell, USN of Gaithersburg, Maryland; daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: Doug Aldridge, Robort Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were: James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Memorial may be made to French Camp Academy, French Camp, MS
The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
July 1, 1999
Ruth S. Campbell
Graveside services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Mizpah Cemetery followed by a memorial services at 11 a.m. at the West Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Campbell died June 28, 1999 at the Methodist hospital of Middle Mississippi in Lexington. She was a member of the West Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; a son, Capt. (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell USN of Gaithersburg, Md.; grandchildren, Edward Ray Dinstel of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Hart of Tulsa, Okla., Amy Andre of Jarreau, La. Commander Donald B. Campbell Jr. USN, Corpus Christi, Texas, Lt Commander Joseph A. Campbell of Norfork, Va., Richard O. Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., and 12 great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Jerry Tate officiated.
Pallbearers were Doug Aldridge, Robert Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Southern Funeral Home of Durant was in charge of arrangments.
Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
The Star Herald July 1, 1999
Memom's Chocolate Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 cup sifted enriched flour or ¼ cup corn starch
2 (1oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 cup milk
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tbsp butter
½ tsp vanilla
1 baked pie shell
3 egg whites
6 tbsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, sugar and salt, gradually add milk. Add chopped chocolate squares. Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Add small amount to yolks then stir into hot mixture. Cook 1 minute stirring constantly. Add butter, vanilla. Cool slightly. Pour in pie shell.
Beat egg whites. Add sugar one Tbsp at a time. Beat and form stiff peaks. Make sure meringue goes to edges and seals to prevent shrinking. Bake 12-15 minutes.
Memom's Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 ¼ cup milk
¾ stick butter
1 tbsp meal
1 tbsp flour
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 cup Bakers Angel flake coconut
1 9 inch baked pastry shell
In mixer, combine all the ingredients until mixed. Pour in uncooked pie shell. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. "(Shake when removed)" "Use a big pan-fruit pie pan."
Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Frosting
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sifted flour (sift before measuring)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 cups finely chopped apple
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 cups sugar
1 ½ cup salad oil
2 eggs
Caramel Frosting
¾ cup oleo
1 ½ cup brown sugar
½ cup evaporated milk
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
I don't remember the directions, probably like making any homemade cake.
Memom's Ice Cream
Johanna Ruth Campbell
½ gallon whole milk
2 large can Pet milk
6 eggs
2 ½ cup sugar
1 tbsp flour
Pinch of salt
1 can Eagle Brand milk
2 tbsp vanilla
Put whole milk and Pet milk in heavy boiler and cook until mixture coats the spoon. Combine eggs, sugar, flour, and salt; pour into milk mixture and cook until it starts to thicken. Remove from heat and cool, add Eagle Brand milk and vanilla. Put in Freezer and freeze. Fresh fruit can be added to this mixture.
Memom's Never Fail Chocolate Icing
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cup sugar
¼ cup white corn syrup
½ cup milk
½ cup shortening
3 tbsp cocoa
¼ tsp salt
Mix ingredients and cook to soft ball stage. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Cool slightly.
Beat to proper consistency for icing a cake. This recipe makes enough to
cover two layers.
Pralines
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup cream
1 cup maple syrup
2 cups nut-meats
Boil the sugar, maple syrup and cream together till a little dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (238 degrees F) Cool and beat till creamy; add the nuts and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on greased paper or plates.
Memom's Refrigerator Rolls
Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell
2 cups milk
½ c scant sugar
½ cup shortening
1 pack dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
6 cups flour
2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp soda
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald milk, pour over sugar and shortening, cool to lukewarm. Add yeast. Add 4 cups flour. Let dough rise about 2 hours or until double in bulk and full of bubbles. Combine soda salt and baking powder with 1 cup flour. Add to dough. Add remaining flour. Turn dough out onto well-floured board. Knead well. Place in greased bowl. Refrigerate overnight. Roll out dough and cut. Let rise 2 hours. Bake at 300 degrees oven for 20 minutes.
Bran Muffins
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups bran
1 egg
1 cup milk
½ cup molasses
2 Tbsp fat, melted
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, and add the bran. Beat the egg and add to it the molasses and soda stirred together; beat slightly and add with the milk and melted shortening to the dry ingredients. Beat well, turn into well greased muffin pans and bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
Plain Coconut Cake
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 CUP BUTTER
1 CUP SUGAR
2 EGGS
1/2 CUP MILK
1 CUP COCOANUT FRESH OR DRIED
½ LEVEL TEASPOON SALT
2 cups flour
2 level teaspoons Rumford Baking Powder
Beat the butter with half the sugar; add the well beaten eggs and remaining sugar, then the mild and cocoanut and, lastly, the flour, salt and baking powder sifted together. Beat well, and bake either as a loaf or layer cake. If fresh-grated cocoanut is used, a little less milk will probably be required.
Tory Pound Cake
Johanna Ruth Campbell
6 Eggs
1 ½ cup butter
3 cups sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp lemon extract
4 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ½ cups buttermilk
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs all at once, beating well, about 2 – 3 minutes. Blend in flavorings. Combine dry ingredients; add alternately until thoroughly combined. Spread evenly in 2 greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pans or 1 greased 10x4 inch tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 1 hour 10 minutes for loaf pans, 1 hour 20 minutes for tube pan or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cook completely. Makes 16 servings
Ambrosia Filling
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sugar
½ cup margarine
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup canned milk
1 cup sweet milk
Pinch of soda
Cook in a deep pot till soft ball stage.
Remove from heat and add
1 box coconut
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins
Peel of 2 oranges, grated
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained
1 tsp vanilla
Beat will it thickens, then add
juice of 2 oranges
Spread between layers and on top of German Chocolate Cake layer
Ice Box Rolls
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 quart sweet milk, scalded (just bring to a boil)
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 package yeast
2 tbsp tepid water
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 heaping tsp baking powder
Scald milk and stir in shortening and sugar, let dissolve. Add yeast to tepid water and dissolve. When milk mixture is lukewarm, add yeast mixture. Stir in enough flour to make a batter like cake batter. Let rise to about double, about 2 hours in a warm place. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. Add flour into batter and work up. Add more flour as needed, having dough so that it can be handled without sticking to hands. Cover dough and place in ice box, or make out. After making out rolls, pick up roll, dip it in melted butter and place in pan to rise. After making rolls, let rise 2 hours and bake at 400 degrees. Watch carefully, they will burn easily. Dough can be in refrigerator up to 4 days.
Colonial Gingerbread
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup molasses
¾ cup buttermilk
½ cup sugar
½ cup margarine
1 egg
1 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Blend ingredients together and beat for 3 minutes. Pour in 9x9x2 pan and bake for hour.
Scotch Shortbread
Rumford Complete Cookbook
1 ½ cups flour
¾ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 oz blanched almonds
Sift the flour twice and rub in the butter with the hands: add the sugar and knead and mix, either on a board or in a bowl, till a dough is formed. Do not add either egg or milk, as the butter softens from the mixing and will bind the ingredients together. Roll the dough rather thinly, cut into rounds or ovals and press a few almonds into each. Place on a flat baking pan, and bake in a slow oven till golden brown.
Praline Patties
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1 ½ cup white sugar
3 tablespoons dark corn syrup
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cup pecans
Combine sugar, syrup, and milk, cook to soft ball stage. Cool 10 minutes, add vanilla and beat 2 minutes. Add pecans and beat until looses gloss. Drop by tablespoon full. Add teaspoon hot water if gets too hard to drop.
Easy Chocolate Fudge
Johanna Ruth Campbell
4 cup sugar
1 (14oz) evaporated milk
1 cup butter
1 (12oz) package semi sweet chocolate pieces
1 pint marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Butter sides of a heavy 3 quart saucepan. In it, combine sugar, milk, and butter. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236), stirring frequently. Remove from heat and add chocolate, marshmallow cream, vanilla, and nuts. Beat till chocolate is melted and blended. Pour into buttered 9x9x2 inch pan.
Cherry Cream Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
Melt 2 tablespoons butter - add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup flour.
½ teaspoon salt,
2 cups milk – cook 20 minutes,
Stir into 2 eggs yolks and cook 2 minutes longer,
Add 2-¼ teaspoons of vanilla.
Place drained cherries in cooked pie shell and pour cream filling over them – top with egg whites beaten stiff.
Custard Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 pie shell, unbaked
2 ½ cup milk
4 eggs
6 Tbsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 can flaked coconut
Dash nutmeg
Prepare pie shell and refrigerate 3o minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat milk till it bubbles around edge. Beat eggs slightly and brush a little over pie shell. Add sugar and salt to eggs. Gradually add hot milk stirring constantly. Put in pie shell, sprinkle in coconut and nutmeg. Bake 10 minutes and reduce heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 minutes longer.
Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell, Ruth, was born November 28, 1910 in Merigold, Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Henry Edgar Sanders, originally from Ecorse, Wayne County, Michigan and Wilhilmena J. Cranker Sanders, originally from Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Ruth was born in Merigold, but reared in Kentwood, Tangipahoa, Louisiana. She was the youngest of five children and lived in a house which also contained two loving aunts, Adelaide Victoria Sanders, Aunt Addie; and Amelia Eugenia Sanders, Aunt Emily. Ruth was raised with special education from Aunt Addie, who was a teacher and wearing handmade cloths from Aunt Emily, who was a seamstress. She was raised in the Presbyterian church, where her mother played the piano. Her father held a variety of jobs with the railroad, tried farming and was an inventor who held several patents.
Ruth's paternal grandparents were Thomas James Sanders, originally from Crawley End, Essex, England, then living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan; and Victoire Drouillard, Victoria, originally from Canada, then living in Northville, MI. Ruth's maternal grandparents were Luther Gates Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio and Sophia Pfann Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.
After finishing high school, Ruth attended Holmes Junior College. When disembarking the train from Kentwood, Otho Ray Campbell, Ray, told his friend, "that is the girl I am going to marry." They did marry in 1929. After marriage, they lived in West, Holmes, Mississippi where Ray held a variety of jobs for Jones Hand. After her first child, Ruth Ray, she experienced severe postpartum illness, but she did eventually recover. When Ray was transferred to Durant with the Hand Ford Motor Company, they made their lifelong marital home in Durant. They built a house on HW 51 and over the years, added a larger house at the back of the lot and obtained a third house on the front of the lot. They rented the two small houses at the front of the of lot throughout their time in Durant. Ruth managed the rental property, as well as maintained the interior between occupants.
After Ray got the Standard Oil station, Ruth started working at the station while Ray was out on the truck. They eventually sold the station and bought a Western Auto store. Ruth worked as a sales clerk for the time they had the store. She also made buying trips and kept inventory. Their second child, Donald Berlin Campbell, was born in Durant.
Ruth moved to the Baptist church with her husband and they attended the First Baptist Church of Durant. Ruth sewed cloths for her daughter, Ruth Ray, on her treadle Singer sewing machine, as Ruth Ray stood behind her waiting for the finished garment. Ruth was also a superb Southern Cook. She was known for her fried chicken, green beans and new potatoes, coconut cake and ice cream cakes. During their time at the Western Auto, they went home at lunch every day to watch "As the World Turns". When Ruth Ray had moved overseas, she asked them to watch the soap and let her know what was happening. The faithfully watched the soap until Ray's death.
After their daughter Ruth Ray married Woodrow Lejune Dinstel, Woody, Ruth Ray and Woody moved overseas. Ruth and Ray's visits with Ruth Ray were limited to the annual summer visits. While Ruth Ray lived in England, once Ruth and Ray visited and decided they had never been so cold in all their lives, they would wait on Ruth Ray's annual visits. After Ruth Ray and family returned to United States, they did make trips to Texas. Several Christmas Eves the Western Auto was closed and they would drive Christmas to spend with Ruth Ray her family. Several Christmas Eves the Don Campbell family and the Woody Dinstel family waited for Ruth and Ray to close the Western Auto and return home, where there were 6 grandkids and 6 adults in a two bedroom house.
After Ruth and Ray's retirement, they looked forward to coffee at the Durant motel. They also had many lifelong friends made during their business and social life in Durant. Ruth also began painting lessons with Mrs. Young in Winona, Montgomery, MS. She progressed from watercolor to tempera to oil. She enjoyed many lessons and painted many land scape, birds, and floral scenes. She even painted a special request for her daughter, of Kilchurn Castle, on Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
After the death of her husband, she sold her property in Durant and moved back to West, MS. She lived in the home in which her husband had been raised. Ruth Ray and Woody, had purchased the home after the death of Vashtie Elizabeth Campbell, her mother in law. Ruth lived there with Ruth Ray and Woody visiting from Jackson, MS, and her going back with them to Jackson to visit. After Woody's retirement, Ruth Ray and Woody moved permanently to West and they lived together. Ruth occupied the eastern end of the house and Ruth Ray and Woody occupied the western end of the house. The kitchen was the common area, where they spent many happy hours together.
Some of Ruth's favorite things, Co-Cola, bread, chocolate covered ice cream bars, reading and current events, hymns, cats. She was especially close to her brother, Donald Eugene Sanders.
Ruth had many lifelong friends, whom she survived. She did make many new friend after her move to West. The final week of her life was spent in the Long Term Care Facility in Durant. She passed away June 28, 1999, in Durant, Holmes, MS.
Ruth was very proud of her son, Captain Donald Berlin Campbell, USN retired. She loved his choice of bride, Martha Anne O'Boyle Campbell, as her own daughter.
Funeral Services were held at the West Presbyterian church, where she was a member. Jerry Tate officiated and Southern Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. She was buried next to her husband in the Mizpah Cemetery, Durant, Holmes, MS.
Your stories retold as well as observations of your eldest granddaughter :)
RUTH SANDERS CAMPBELL
Memorial services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 30 at West Presbyterian Church. Officiating minister was Rev. Jerry Tate. Burial was in Mizpah Cemetery in Durant with Southern Funeral Home of Durant handling arrangements.
Mrs. Campbell died Monday, June 28, 1999 of heart failure at Methodist Healthcare of Middle Mississippi in Lexington.
A native of Merigold, she was a homemaker, and a member of West Presbyterian Church. She attended Holmes Junior College for a year.
She was the widow of O. R. Campbell.
Survivors include: son, Captain (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell, USN of Gaithersburg, Maryland; daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: Doug Aldridge, Robort Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were: James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Memorial may be made to French Camp Academy, French Camp, MS
The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
July 1, 1999
Ruth S. Campbell
Graveside services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Mizpah Cemetery followed by a memorial services at 11 a.m. at the West Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Campbell died June 28, 1999 at the Methodist hospital of Middle Mississippi in Lexington. She was a member of the West Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; a son, Capt. (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell USN of Gaithersburg, Md.; grandchildren, Edward Ray Dinstel of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Hart of Tulsa, Okla., Amy Andre of Jarreau, La. Commander Donald B. Campbell Jr. USN, Corpus Christi, Texas, Lt Commander Joseph A. Campbell of Norfork, Va., Richard O. Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., and 12 great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Jerry Tate officiated.
Pallbearers were Doug Aldridge, Robert Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Southern Funeral Home of Durant was in charge of arrangments.
Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
The Star Herald July 1, 1999
Memom's Chocolate Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 cup sifted enriched flour or ¼ cup corn starch
2 (1oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 cup milk
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tbsp butter
½ tsp vanilla
1 baked pie shell
3 egg whites
6 tbsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, sugar and salt, gradually add milk. Add chopped chocolate squares. Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Add small amount to yolks then stir into hot mixture. Cook 1 minute stirring constantly. Add butter, vanilla. Cool slightly. Pour in pie shell.
Beat egg whites. Add sugar one Tbsp at a time. Beat and form stiff peaks. Make sure meringue goes to edges and seals to prevent shrinking. Bake 12-15 minutes.
Memom's Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 ¼ cup milk
¾ stick butter
1 tbsp meal
1 tbsp flour
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 cup Bakers Angel flake coconut
1 9 inch baked pastry shell
In mixer, combine all the ingredients until mixed. Pour in uncooked pie shell. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. "(Shake when removed)" "Use a big pan-fruit pie pan."
Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Frosting
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sifted flour (sift before measuring)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 cups finely chopped apple
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 cups sugar
1 ½ cup salad oil
2 eggs
Caramel Frosting
¾ cup oleo
1 ½ cup brown sugar
½ cup evaporated milk
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
I don't remember the directions, probably like making any homemade cake.
Memom's Ice Cream
Johanna Ruth Campbell
½ gallon whole milk
2 large can Pet milk
6 eggs
2 ½ cup sugar
1 tbsp flour
Pinch of salt
1 can Eagle Brand milk
2 tbsp vanilla
Put whole milk and Pet milk in heavy boiler and cook until mixture coats the spoon. Combine eggs, sugar, flour, and salt; pour into milk mixture and cook until it starts to thicken. Remove from heat and cool, add Eagle Brand milk and vanilla. Put in Freezer and freeze. Fresh fruit can be added to this mixture.
Memom's Never Fail Chocolate Icing
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cup sugar
¼ cup white corn syrup
½ cup milk
½ cup shortening
3 tbsp cocoa
¼ tsp salt
Mix ingredients and cook to soft ball stage. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Cool slightly.
Beat to proper consistency for icing a cake. This recipe makes enough to
cover two layers.
Pralines
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup cream
1 cup maple syrup
2 cups nut-meats
Boil the sugar, maple syrup and cream together till a little dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (238 degrees F) Cool and beat till creamy; add the nuts and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on greased paper or plates.
Memom's Refrigerator Rolls
Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell
2 cups milk
½ c scant sugar
½ cup shortening
1 pack dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
6 cups flour
2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp soda
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald milk, pour over sugar and shortening, cool to lukewarm. Add yeast. Add 4 cups flour. Let dough rise about 2 hours or until double in bulk and full of bubbles. Combine soda salt and baking powder with 1 cup flour. Add to dough. Add remaining flour. Turn dough out onto well-floured board. Knead well. Place in greased bowl. Refrigerate overnight. Roll out dough and cut. Let rise 2 hours. Bake at 300 degrees oven for 20 minutes.
Bran Muffins
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups bran
1 egg
1 cup milk
½ cup molasses
2 Tbsp fat, melted
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, and add the bran. Beat the egg and add to it the molasses and soda stirred together; beat slightly and add with the milk and melted shortening to the dry ingredients. Beat well, turn into well greased muffin pans and bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
Plain Coconut Cake
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 CUP BUTTER
1 CUP SUGAR
2 EGGS
1/2 CUP MILK
1 CUP COCOANUT FRESH OR DRIED
½ LEVEL TEASPOON SALT
2 cups flour
2 level teaspoons Rumford Baking Powder
Beat the butter with half the sugar; add the well beaten eggs and remaining sugar, then the mild and cocoanut and, lastly, the flour, salt and baking powder sifted together. Beat well, and bake either as a loaf or layer cake. If fresh-grated cocoanut is used, a little less milk will probably be required.
Tory Pound Cake
Johanna Ruth Campbell
6 Eggs
1 ½ cup butter
3 cups sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp lemon extract
4 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ½ cups buttermilk
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs all at once, beating well, about 2 – 3 minutes. Blend in flavorings. Combine dry ingredients; add alternately until thoroughly combined. Spread evenly in 2 greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pans or 1 greased 10x4 inch tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 1 hour 10 minutes for loaf pans, 1 hour 20 minutes for tube pan or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cook completely. Makes 16 servings
Ambrosia Filling
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sugar
½ cup margarine
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup canned milk
1 cup sweet milk
Pinch of soda
Cook in a deep pot till soft ball stage.
Remove from heat and add
1 box coconut
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins
Peel of 2 oranges, grated
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained
1 tsp vanilla
Beat will it thickens, then add
juice of 2 oranges
Spread between layers and on top of German Chocolate Cake layer
Ice Box Rolls
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 quart sweet milk, scalded (just bring to a boil)
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 package yeast
2 tbsp tepid water
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 heaping tsp baking powder
Scald milk and stir in shortening and sugar, let dissolve. Add yeast to tepid water and dissolve. When milk mixture is lukewarm, add yeast mixture. Stir in enough flour to make a batter like cake batter. Let rise to about double, about 2 hours in a warm place. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. Add flour into batter and work up. Add more flour as needed, having dough so that it can be handled without sticking to hands. Cover dough and place in ice box, or make out. After making out rolls, pick up roll, dip it in melted butter and place in pan to rise. After making rolls, let rise 2 hours and bake at 400 degrees. Watch carefully, they will burn easily. Dough can be in refrigerator up to 4 days.
Colonial Gingerbread
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup molasses
¾ cup buttermilk
½ cup sugar
½ cup margarine
1 egg
1 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Blend ingredients together and beat for 3 minutes. Pour in 9x9x2 pan and bake for hour.
Scotch Shortbread
Rumford Complete Cookbook
1 ½ cups flour
¾ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 oz blanched almonds
Sift the flour twice and rub in the butter with the hands: add the sugar and knead and mix, either on a board or in a bowl, till a dough is formed. Do not add either egg or milk, as the butter softens from the mixing and will bind the ingredients together. Roll the dough rather thinly, cut into rounds or ovals and press a few almonds into each. Place on a flat baking pan, and bake in a slow oven till golden brown.
Praline Patties
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1 ½ cup white sugar
3 tablespoons dark corn syrup
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cup pecans
Combine sugar, syrup, and milk, cook to soft ball stage. Cool 10 minutes, add vanilla and beat 2 minutes. Add pecans and beat until looses gloss. Drop by tablespoon full. Add teaspoon hot water if gets too hard to drop.
Easy Chocolate Fudge
Johanna Ruth Campbell
4 cup sugar
1 (14oz) evaporated milk
1 cup butter
1 (12oz) package semi sweet chocolate pieces
1 pint marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Butter sides of a heavy 3 quart saucepan. In it, combine sugar, milk, and butter. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236), stirring frequently. Remove from heat and add chocolate, marshmallow cream, vanilla, and nuts. Beat till chocolate is melted and blended. Pour into buttered 9x9x2 inch pan.
Cherry Cream Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
Melt 2 tablespoons butter - add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup flour.
½ teaspoon salt,
2 cups milk – cook 20 minutes,
Stir into 2 eggs yolks and cook 2 minutes longer,
Add 2-¼ teaspoons of vanilla.
Place drained cherries in cooked pie shell and pour cream filling over them – top with egg whites beaten stiff.
Custard Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 pie shell, unbaked
2 ½ cup milk
4 eggs
6 Tbsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 can flaked coconut
Dash nutmeg
Prepare pie shell and refrigerate 3o minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat milk till it bubbles around edge. Beat eggs slightly and brush a little over pie shell. Add sugar and salt to eggs. Gradually add hot milk stirring constantly. Put in pie shell, sprinkle in coconut and nutmeg. Bake 10 minutes and reduce heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 minutes longer.
Ruth's paternal grandparents were Thomas James Sanders, originally from Crawley End, Essex, England, then living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan; and Victoire Drouillard, Victoria, originally from Canada, then living in Northville, MI. Ruth's maternal grandparents were Luther Gates Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio and Sophia Pfann Cranker, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.
After finishing high school, Ruth attended Holmes Junior College. When disembarking the train from Kentwood, Otho Ray Campbell, Ray, told his friend, "that is the girl I am going to marry." They did marry in 1929. After marriage, they lived in West, Holmes, Mississippi where Ray held a variety of jobs for Jones Hand. After her first child, Ruth Ray, she experienced severe postpartum illness, but she did eventually recover. When Ray was transferred to Durant with the Hand Ford Motor Company, they made their lifelong marital home in Durant. They built a house on HW 51 and over the years, added a larger house at the back of the lot and obtained a third house on the front of the lot. They rented the two small houses at the front of the of lot throughout their time in Durant. Ruth managed the rental property, as well as maintained the interior between occupants.
After Ray got the Standard Oil station, Ruth started working at the station while Ray was out on the truck. They eventually sold the station and bought a Western Auto store. Ruth worked as a sales clerk for the time they had the store. She also made buying trips and kept inventory. Their second child, Donald Berlin Campbell, was born in Durant.
Ruth moved to the Baptist church with her husband and they attended the First Baptist Church of Durant. Ruth sewed cloths for her daughter, Ruth Ray, on her treadle Singer sewing machine, as Ruth Ray stood behind her waiting for the finished garment. Ruth was also a superb Southern Cook. She was known for her fried chicken, green beans and new potatoes, coconut cake and ice cream cakes. During their time at the Western Auto, they went home at lunch every day to watch "As the World Turns". When Ruth Ray had moved overseas, she asked them to watch the soap and let her know what was happening. The faithfully watched the soap until Ray's death.
After their daughter Ruth Ray married Woodrow Lejune Dinstel, Woody, Ruth Ray and Woody moved overseas. Ruth and Ray's visits with Ruth Ray were limited to the annual summer visits. While Ruth Ray lived in England, once Ruth and Ray visited and decided they had never been so cold in all their lives, they would wait on Ruth Ray's annual visits. After Ruth Ray and family returned to United States, they did make trips to Texas. Several Christmas Eves the Western Auto was closed and they would drive Christmas to spend with Ruth Ray her family. Several Christmas Eves the Don Campbell family and the Woody Dinstel family waited for Ruth and Ray to close the Western Auto and return home, where there were 6 grandkids and 6 adults in a two bedroom house.
After Ruth and Ray's retirement, they looked forward to coffee at the Durant motel. They also had many lifelong friends made during their business and social life in Durant. Ruth also began painting lessons with Mrs. Young in Winona, Montgomery, MS. She progressed from watercolor to tempera to oil. She enjoyed many lessons and painted many land scape, birds, and floral scenes. She even painted a special request for her daughter, of Kilchurn Castle, on Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
After the death of her husband, she sold her property in Durant and moved back to West, MS. She lived in the home in which her husband had been raised. Ruth Ray and Woody, had purchased the home after the death of Vashtie Elizabeth Campbell, her mother in law. Ruth lived there with Ruth Ray and Woody visiting from Jackson, MS, and her going back with them to Jackson to visit. After Woody's retirement, Ruth Ray and Woody moved permanently to West and they lived together. Ruth occupied the eastern end of the house and Ruth Ray and Woody occupied the western end of the house. The kitchen was the common area, where they spent many happy hours together.
Some of Ruth's favorite things, Co-Cola, bread, chocolate covered ice cream bars, reading and current events, hymns, cats. She was especially close to her brother, Donald Eugene Sanders.
Ruth had many lifelong friends, whom she survived. She did make many new friend after her move to West. The final week of her life was spent in the Long Term Care Facility in Durant. She passed away June 28, 1999, in Durant, Holmes, MS.
Ruth was very proud of her son, Captain Donald Berlin Campbell, USN retired. She loved his choice of bride, Martha Anne O'Boyle Campbell, as her own daughter.
Funeral Services were held at the West Presbyterian church, where she was a member. Jerry Tate officiated and Southern Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. She was buried next to her husband in the Mizpah Cemetery, Durant, Holmes, MS.
Your stories retold as well as observations of your eldest granddaughter :)
RUTH SANDERS CAMPBELL
Memorial services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 30 at West Presbyterian Church. Officiating minister was Rev. Jerry Tate. Burial was in Mizpah Cemetery in Durant with Southern Funeral Home of Durant handling arrangements.
Mrs. Campbell died Monday, June 28, 1999 of heart failure at Methodist Healthcare of Middle Mississippi in Lexington.
A native of Merigold, she was a homemaker, and a member of West Presbyterian Church. She attended Holmes Junior College for a year.
She was the widow of O. R. Campbell.
Survivors include: son, Captain (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell, USN of Gaithersburg, Maryland; daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were: Doug Aldridge, Robort Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were: James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Memorial may be made to French Camp Academy, French Camp, MS
The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
July 1, 1999
Ruth S. Campbell
Graveside services for Mrs. Ruth Sanders Campbell, 88, of West were held Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Mizpah Cemetery followed by a memorial services at 11 a.m. at the West Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Campbell died June 28, 1999 at the Methodist hospital of Middle Mississippi in Lexington. She was a member of the West Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Ruth Ray Dinstel of West; a son, Capt. (Ret.) Donald B. Campbell USN of Gaithersburg, Md.; grandchildren, Edward Ray Dinstel of San Antonio, Texas, Donna Hart of Tulsa, Okla., Amy Andre of Jarreau, La. Commander Donald B. Campbell Jr. USN, Corpus Christi, Texas, Lt Commander Joseph A. Campbell of Norfork, Va., Richard O. Campbell of Atlanta, Ga., and 12 great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Jerry Tate officiated.
Pallbearers were Doug Aldridge, Robert Rosson, Ted Varnado, Tommy Johnson, Kyle Andre and Joseph Guess.
Honorary pallbearers were James Weeks, Harvey Campbell, Dr. Charles Campbell, Jim Bowie, Lloyd Carruth and Bob Thompson.
Southern Funeral Home of Durant was in charge of arrangments.
Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy.
The Star Herald July 1, 1999
Memom's Chocolate Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 cup sifted enriched flour or ¼ cup corn starch
2 (1oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 cup milk
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tbsp butter
½ tsp vanilla
1 baked pie shell
3 egg whites
6 tbsp sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, sugar and salt, gradually add milk. Add chopped chocolate squares. Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Add small amount to yolks then stir into hot mixture. Cook 1 minute stirring constantly. Add butter, vanilla. Cool slightly. Pour in pie shell.
Beat egg whites. Add sugar one Tbsp at a time. Beat and form stiff peaks. Make sure meringue goes to edges and seals to prevent shrinking. Bake 12-15 minutes.
Memom's Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup sugar
4 eggs
1 ¼ cup milk
¾ stick butter
1 tbsp meal
1 tbsp flour
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 cup Bakers Angel flake coconut
1 9 inch baked pastry shell
In mixer, combine all the ingredients until mixed. Pour in uncooked pie shell. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. "(Shake when removed)" "Use a big pan-fruit pie pan."
Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Frosting
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sifted flour (sift before measuring)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 cups finely chopped apple
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 cups sugar
1 ½ cup salad oil
2 eggs
Caramel Frosting
¾ cup oleo
1 ½ cup brown sugar
½ cup evaporated milk
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
I don't remember the directions, probably like making any homemade cake.
Memom's Ice Cream
Johanna Ruth Campbell
½ gallon whole milk
2 large can Pet milk
6 eggs
2 ½ cup sugar
1 tbsp flour
Pinch of salt
1 can Eagle Brand milk
2 tbsp vanilla
Put whole milk and Pet milk in heavy boiler and cook until mixture coats the spoon. Combine eggs, sugar, flour, and salt; pour into milk mixture and cook until it starts to thicken. Remove from heat and cool, add Eagle Brand milk and vanilla. Put in Freezer and freeze. Fresh fruit can be added to this mixture.
Memom's Never Fail Chocolate Icing
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cup sugar
¼ cup white corn syrup
½ cup milk
½ cup shortening
3 tbsp cocoa
¼ tsp salt
Mix ingredients and cook to soft ball stage. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Cool slightly.
Beat to proper consistency for icing a cake. This recipe makes enough to
cover two layers.
Pralines
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup cream
1 cup maple syrup
2 cups nut-meats
Boil the sugar, maple syrup and cream together till a little dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (238 degrees F) Cool and beat till creamy; add the nuts and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on greased paper or plates.
Memom's Refrigerator Rolls
Johanna Ruth Sanders Campbell
2 cups milk
½ c scant sugar
½ cup shortening
1 pack dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
6 cups flour
2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp soda
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald milk, pour over sugar and shortening, cool to lukewarm. Add yeast. Add 4 cups flour. Let dough rise about 2 hours or until double in bulk and full of bubbles. Combine soda salt and baking powder with 1 cup flour. Add to dough. Add remaining flour. Turn dough out onto well-floured board. Knead well. Place in greased bowl. Refrigerate overnight. Roll out dough and cut. Let rise 2 hours. Bake at 300 degrees oven for 20 minutes.
Bran Muffins
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups bran
1 egg
1 cup milk
½ cup molasses
2 Tbsp fat, melted
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, and add the bran. Beat the egg and add to it the molasses and soda stirred together; beat slightly and add with the milk and melted shortening to the dry ingredients. Beat well, turn into well greased muffin pans and bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
Plain Coconut Cake
Rumford Complete Cookbook 1930
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1/3 CUP BUTTER
1 CUP SUGAR
2 EGGS
1/2 CUP MILK
1 CUP COCOANUT FRESH OR DRIED
½ LEVEL TEASPOON SALT
2 cups flour
2 level teaspoons Rumford Baking Powder
Beat the butter with half the sugar; add the well beaten eggs and remaining sugar, then the mild and cocoanut and, lastly, the flour, salt and baking powder sifted together. Beat well, and bake either as a loaf or layer cake. If fresh-grated cocoanut is used, a little less milk will probably be required.
Tory Pound Cake
Johanna Ruth Campbell
6 Eggs
1 ½ cup butter
3 cups sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp lemon extract
4 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp baking powder
1 ½ cups buttermilk
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs all at once, beating well, about 2 – 3 minutes. Blend in flavorings. Combine dry ingredients; add alternately until thoroughly combined. Spread evenly in 2 greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pans or 1 greased 10x4 inch tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 1 hour 10 minutes for loaf pans, 1 hour 20 minutes for tube pan or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cook completely. Makes 16 servings
Ambrosia Filling
Johanna Ruth Campbell
3 cups sugar
½ cup margarine
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup canned milk
1 cup sweet milk
Pinch of soda
Cook in a deep pot till soft ball stage.
Remove from heat and add
1 box coconut
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins
Peel of 2 oranges, grated
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained
1 tsp vanilla
Beat will it thickens, then add
juice of 2 oranges
Spread between layers and on top of German Chocolate Cake layer
Ice Box Rolls
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 quart sweet milk, scalded (just bring to a boil)
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 package yeast
2 tbsp tepid water
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 heaping tsp baking powder
Scald milk and stir in shortening and sugar, let dissolve. Add yeast to tepid water and dissolve. When milk mixture is lukewarm, add yeast mixture. Stir in enough flour to make a batter like cake batter. Let rise to about double, about 2 hours in a warm place. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. Add flour into batter and work up. Add more flour as needed, having dough so that it can be handled without sticking to hands. Cover dough and place in ice box, or make out. After making out rolls, pick up roll, dip it in melted butter and place in pan to rise. After making rolls, let rise 2 hours and bake at 400 degrees. Watch carefully, they will burn easily. Dough can be in refrigerator up to 4 days.
Colonial Gingerbread
Johanna Ruth Campbell
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup molasses
¾ cup buttermilk
½ cup sugar
½ cup margarine
1 egg
1 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Blend ingredients together and beat for 3 minutes. Pour in 9x9x2 pan and bake for hour.
Scotch Shortbread
Rumford Complete Cookbook
1 ½ cups flour
¾ cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 oz blanched almonds
Sift the flour twice and rub in the butter with the hands: add the sugar and knead and mix, either on a board or in a bowl, till a dough is formed. Do not add either egg or milk, as the butter softens from the mixing and will bind the ingredients together. Roll the dough rather thinly, cut into rounds or ovals and press a few almonds into each. Place on a flat baking pan, and bake in a slow oven till golden brown.
Praline Patties
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1 ½ cup white sugar
3 tablespoons dark corn syrup
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cup pecans
Combine sugar, syrup, and milk, cook to soft ball stage. Cool 10 minutes, add vanilla and beat 2 minutes. Add pecans and beat until looses gloss. Drop by tablespoon full. Add teaspoon hot water if gets too hard to drop.
Easy Chocolate Fudge
Johanna Ruth Campbell
4 cup sugar
1 (14oz) evaporated milk
1 cup butter
1 (12oz) package semi sweet chocolate pieces
1 pint marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Butter sides of a heavy 3 quart saucepan. In it, combine sugar, milk, and butter. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236), stirring frequently. Remove from heat and add chocolate, marshmallow cream, vanilla, and nuts. Beat till chocolate is melted and blended. Pour into buttered 9x9x2 inch pan.
Cherry Cream Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
Melt 2 tablespoons butter - add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup flour.
½ teaspoon salt,
2 cups milk – cook 20 minutes,
Stir into 2 eggs yolks and cook 2 minutes longer,
Add 2-¼ teaspoons of vanilla.
Place drained cherries in cooked pie shell and pour cream filling over them – top with egg whites beaten stiff.
Custard Coconut Pie
Johanna Ruth Campbell
1 pie shell, unbaked
2 ½ cup milk
4 eggs
6 Tbsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 can flaked coconut
Dash nutmeg
Prepare pie shell and refrigerate 3o minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat milk till it bubbles around edge. Beat eggs slightly and brush a little over pie shell. Add sugar and salt to eggs. Gradually add hot milk stirring constantly. Put in pie shell, sprinkle in coconut and nutmeg. Bake 10 minutes and reduce heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 minutes longer.
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