Campbell, John G. Jr.

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John Gorsuch Campbell Jr.

John Gorsuch Campbell Jr. was born on October 1, 1908, in St James, Maryland, to Mary Remsen Onderdonk, age 40, and John Gorsuch Campbell, age 30. He was raised and educated in Maryland. His father was the headmaster of the St James School in Lydia, MD, a position he held for 42 years.
John married Jean A Godwin in Larchmont, New York, on June 18, 1932, when he was 23 years old and they had two children together. He was then working as a broker and the family was living in Harrison, NY.

John enlisted on June 28, 1944, in the US Navy, when he was 35 years old. He served as an officer on the USS Karnes (APA 175).

USS Karnes was a Haskell-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas. Karnes landed troops on Saipan and embarked the wounded from Iwo Jima and reinforced Okinawa with troops and supplies

After the war, John and his family moved to Tulsa, OK in the spring of 1948. He had taken a new job working in the Oil Industry. The family, then moved to Oklahoma City in March, 1956 and they were members of the All Soul’s Episcopal church

His wife Jean died in 1959, John then remarried on January 29, 1967, in Dallas, Texas.