Delia Lucille Campbell was born in Carthage, Missouri, June 4, 1901, the youngest child of Channing B. and Margaret Delahunt Campbell. Miss Campbell finished public school and also 2 years of Junior College. While in the 5th grade she felt the call to full time Christian Service which was made clearer to her when she attended Epworth League Institutes, and as a member of the Student Volunteer Group at Southwestern College which she graduated from in 1923. She worked in the family abstract business and the Garden City High School and Junior College offices until she was led to contact the Women's Home Missionary Society and offered herself to them for service. She served as an assistant supertintendent at Haven Home Industrial Training School at Savannah, Georgia, and then became the superintendent. From there she went to Boylan Home School at Jacksonville, Florida. During this period of time the W.H.M.S. accepted her as an Enrolled Home Missionary. On June 27, 1952, she was consecrated by Bishop J. Ralph Magee and transferred to the deaconess relationship. She also served for 8 years at Thayer Home and 6 years at Allen High School in Ashville, North Carolina. In 1948 she became secertary of the Methodist Old Peoples Home in Chicago where she served until her retirement on June 30, 1966
Delia Lucille Campbell was born in Carthage, Missouri, June 4, 1901, the youngest child of Channing B. and Margaret Delahunt Campbell. Miss Campbell finished public school and also 2 years of Junior College. While in the 5th grade she felt the call to full time Christian Service which was made clearer to her when she attended Epworth League Institutes, and as a member of the Student Volunteer Group at Southwestern College which she graduated from in 1923. She worked in the family abstract business and the Garden City High School and Junior College offices until she was led to contact the Women's Home Missionary Society and offered herself to them for service. She served as an assistant supertintendent at Haven Home Industrial Training School at Savannah, Georgia, and then became the superintendent. From there she went to Boylan Home School at Jacksonville, Florida. During this period of time the W.H.M.S. accepted her as an Enrolled Home Missionary. On June 27, 1952, she was consecrated by Bishop J. Ralph Magee and transferred to the deaconess relationship. She also served for 8 years at Thayer Home and 6 years at Allen High School in Ashville, North Carolina. In 1948 she became secertary of the Methodist Old Peoples Home in Chicago where she served until her retirement on June 30, 1966
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