Stanley Wiley Campbell Jr.

Stanley "Stan" Wiley Campbell Jr., passed away peacefully in Saratoga, California, with his daughter, Stacey Hall and son, Bengt Campbell, by his side on April 21st, 2024, (91 years young). Stan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 24th, 1932 to Stanley Wiley Campbell Sr. and Helen Millicent Ruth Campbell. Stan was a kind, handsome and gregarious boy, with a fabulous smile, heart and persona. Stan grew up primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio, Goshen, Indiana, Venice, Florida and Chicago, Illinois. Stan spent most of his adult living years in the Chicago, Illinois area and in Southeast Florida. Stan was the oldest of eight children, Mark, Kay, (maternal and paternal) Mike, Rob, Will, Ginny and Rick, (paternal).

As a teenager, among many adventures, Stan hitchhiked westward, with his cardboard suitcase in hand, to go work on a ranch in Idaho. Confident that he could tackle anything, he told the rancher that he could saddle and ride a horse and drive the farm truck with a stick shift. He had never done any of those tasks, however had read enough cowboy novels and thought, "How tough can it be?" It was quite apparent to the owner of the ranch that Stan may have been overly confident in his abilities after he almost started a fire while plugging his transistor radio into a light socket. And that was all on the first day.

Stan graduated from Venice-Nokomis High School in Florida and went on to Hiram College, in Hiram, Ohio, transferring to Northwestern University in Chicago and completing his education with a law degree from John Marshall Law School. He practiced law in both Illinois and Florida. Stan joined the United States Marine Corps in 1953 and was in the Korean War. He was a proud U.S Veteran.

In his early years of employment in the 1940's, he worked at Testworth Labratories, the company his father founded doing anything that needed to be done. Stan was an accomplished attorney in Chicago. He owned his own Commercial Real Estate firm of which he started and sold. After many years of residing in the Chicago area, he moved to South Florida (living in Highland Park, Pompano Beach, and Boca Raton) where he spent many years as Counsel for the Family Bank of Hallandale and he was the Owner and CEO of Guaranty Trust and Title for many years until his retirement. Stan was a successful businessman and entrepreneur and had wonderful business relationships throughout his life, many of which became his lifelong friends. Stan was innovative, a risk taker and there wasn't anything he wasn't willing to try. He always made lemonade out of lemons and was not one to look back, only forward.

After returning from Korea, Stan married Marlene (Koerfer) Campbell in Chicago in 1955. They had a beautiful and vivacious daughter, Stacey, born in 1959. Stan and Marlene's marriage ended and several years later in 1970 Stan met and married Anna-Clara (Widehag) Campbell from Sweden. Stan and Anna-Clara were married for 25 years. They brought to their home a beautiful baby boy and their son, Bengt, born in 1979, gave them tremendous joy. In 2004, Stan married Jackie (Harfst) Campbell and they had an adventurous and exciting life together traveling the world, sailing, snow skiing, riding motorcycles and boating and fishing wherever they landed. Stan and Jackie left no stone unturned in loving their life together. Laughter was their medicine! They had many happy years together in Florida and spent their summers at their lake home in Hayward.

Throughout Stan's life and marriages, he developed many deep friendships that stayed with him throughout his lifetime. He never had an idle moment. He traveled to hundreds of bodies of water on several continents to fish and scuba dive. Stan traveled as far away as the North Sea in Sweden, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the Everglades and Florida Keys, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to include waters in Alaska and every fresh water lake in most any state imaginable, but more than any place, he loved Hayward, Wisconsin. Stan was an accomplished snow skier tackling the biggest mountains he could find and scuba diving in the most beautiful places. He was an avid tennis player as well and played with friends into his 80's.

Stan loved animals. Even though he had a precarious start with horses, he loved them his entire life. He enjoyed Western and action movies. He especially loved dogs. He owned 'Holly" a West Highland Terrier for 14 years with his wife Jackie . "Holly" was an angel and wonderful companion. Unfortunately for Stan he thought all Westies were angels and bought another named T-Rex. T-Rex started out with a more angelic name but soon that name did not fit. Did you see Jurassic Park? T-Rex beats to his own drum and does exactly what he wants and Stan loved him.

Stan was an adventurous, gregarious, humorous, passionate and a kind hearted man. More than anything, he was a renaissance man with astounding class and grace. He was always impeccably dressed, a gentleman with manners from a time of the past. Stan had a way of making everyone feel welcome, engaged completely and developed relationships that lasted his lifetime. His laughter was voracious, his stories were embellished, his humor was marvelous and his hugs and love were over the moon. He was the most fabulous host and hosted wonderful and beautiful meals with exquisite table settings. While Stan had many hobbies, he loved to fish more than anything in the world. He hardly went anywhere without including fishing on the agenda. His fishing gear was always in the trunk of his car, to include a motor for any boat available. The more tumultuous the waters he could fine, the better.

Stan was a family man, loved and adored his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, siblings, and nieces, nephews, great and great-great nieces and nephews. He also had many friends that were family as well to be included in all festivities. Stan carried on the tradition of the Campbell Family of having family gatherings for every holiday, birthday or any event until the last year of his life. He Had a huge 89th and 90th birthday celebration with caviar, lobster and of course champagne with over 25 of his closest family and friends in attendance.

Stan was preceded in death by his wife, Jackie, his father, Stan Campbell, Sr., mother Helen Ruth, step-mother, Lucile Campbell, Paternal Aunt, Ann Campbell and her daughters, Melinda and Ann, Paternal Uncle, Doug (Erika), sister Kay Campbell, brothers Mark and Rick Campbell, niece Cindy Campbell , nephew Meckie Keys and his first wife Marlene.

He is survived by his daughter, Stacey (George) Hall, son, Bengt (Mark) Campbell, brothers Mike, Rob (Linda), Will, sister Ginny Campbell (Patti), sister-in-law Liz Campbell and his second wife and friend Anna-Clara Campbell. He is also survived by his Paternal Cousins, Nick Campbell (Valorie) and Sandy Pagniucci, grandchildren, Ryan Hall (Astrid), Kelsey Hall, and great-grandchildren Avelina, Bjorn, Nicholas, Zachary and Grayson and his nieces, Connie (Jim) Shingledecker, Rachel Campbell, Mary Chetham, his first and oldest nephew, and oldest son of his sister Kay, Edward Maurice Keys, (Sherri), and nephews Terry and Randy Keys, Greg (Matthew), Mike Jr. (Connie), Chris (Ellie), Jeremy, and Nathan (Samm) Campbell, great nieces, Keri (Tommy), Kalien Keys (Joseph), Tatum Campbell and great nephews Michael, Ryan and Mathew, great-great niece Livi and great-great nephew Bodi. He is lastly survived by his very close and special friends, Gunny and Bo Janzon from Sweden.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to The National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Guardian ad Litem (GAL) Association for Children (www.nationalcasagal.org) or to the Disabled American Veterans Organization (www.dav.org). A private family celebration of life was held in the Florida Keys on May 18, 2024.