PHM3 (Pharmacist’s Mate PO 3^rd Class), U. S. Navy Bonnie B. Campbell

Born: September 27, 1895, Bradford, Gibson, Iowa

Died: November 1, 1973, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico

Bonnie Bernice Campbell joined the U. S. Navy as a Pharmacist’s Mate 3^rd Class June 5, 1917. [i] He served between 18 October 1917 and 26 February  1919. [ii] He was stationed at the Regimental Headquarters Detachment, Third Provisional Regiment. [iii]

Bonnie B. Campbell was born in Tennessee 27 September 1895 to parents William A. and Jan F, Campbell the oldest of 5 children.[iv] He married Cora Drake 10 May 1922 in Winston, Alabama. The couple lived in Gadsden Alabama until 1935, when they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. [v] The couple divorced soon after that, with her returning to Alabama. Campbell remained in Albuquerque, working in real estate and the building materials industry until his death in 1973.[vi]

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Notes:

[i] World War I Registration Card No. 103, June 5, 1917

[ii] U. S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2019

[iii] U. S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1958

[iv] 1910 Federal Census

[v] Marriage Record from Winston, Alabama; 1930 Federal Census; 1931 Gadsden Alabama City Directory; 1940 Federal Census; Albuquerque Tribune, 3 November , 1973, page 2

[vi] Albuquerque Tribune, 3 November , 1973, page 2; Albuquerque Journal, 3 November 1973, page 68.

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