Name: Doris Campbell Life Dates: 5/8/1927 - 8/12/2012 City Of Birth: Rochester History Survived by children, Karen (David Wright) Manners, Dwight Campbell, Kevin Campbell; grandchildren, Shannon (Gary) Goethals, Chris (Nichole) Manners, Andrew Campbell, Stephen Campbell; great-grandchildren, Jarek, Collin Ava Manners, Garrett Goethals. Services Doris's visitation will be Saturday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the funeral home, 1411 Vintage Lane (between Rte. 390 Long Pond Rd) followed by her funeral service at 1:00 pm. Interment in Irondequoit Cemetery. Additional Information Doris Campbell's Life Story Doris Elizabeth Maibaum was born on May 8, 1927 in Rochester, NY. Her parents were Elmer and Eva Maibaum. Elmer was a tinsmith who worked out of a shop in their back yard; Eva was a homemaker. Elmer had moved to Rochester from Morton. Eva came from Winooski, VT. Doris grew up in Rochester with one sibling, an older brother named Earl, better known as Buster. As a child she played the piano, enjoyed the kittens that they frequently had, and spent summers at the family cottage on Irondequoit Bay. She loved spending time on the water but was not happy with the lack of kids to play with there. There was one story she told about the family visiting on the bay when a thunderstorm came up. Her father waited a while and must have decided it just wasn't going to let up, so he took the family home in their aluminum boat. Apparently she was old enough to be terrified, because she talked about it for decades. She had a pet rabbit that would tug on her father's pant legs to get some attention. Once the rabbit got away and she had an awful time catching it. She remembered having an ice box. A man with a horse drawn cart would come around selling blocks of ice for it. They also had a milk man that delivered milk to the house. She remembered the subway and running to catch busses at different stops when they were late for school. As a teenager, she had a crush on Gary Cooper. She and a girl friend wrote him a letter and received a signed photograph in return. They took turns keeping it, but somehow Doris ended up with the picture. In later years she couldn't remember how that happened. Doris started high school at Monroe High School, but the family moved to live with her paternal grandmother during her high school years. She graduated from Ben Franklin High School. She talked about her stenography classes and how hard it was to take dictation. She was an average student. Her brother excelled at school, and everything else according to her, and she felt she wasn't very smart as she grew up in his shadow. In 1947 Buster died after serving in WWII. Neither Doris or her mother ever really got over that. Every year on Buster's birthday and the day he died she would mention how sad she was. She married Maurice Campbell on July 3, 1948. She and Maurice lived with her parents for two years, spending the summers at her parents cottage on Irondequoit Bay. Maurice, who had grown up on a farm, moved the city girl to the country in 1950. They lived in Parma, which had a lot fewer people in 1950, and Doris pined for the city. She called her mother every day. Luckily, there were two other young families nearby to keep her company. They were on the same phone party line. You could pick up your phone sometimes and hear that your neighbors were already using it. After a little while, children kept her busy. She had a daughter, Karen, in 1950, a son, Dwight, in 1954, and another son, Kevin, in 1957. Maurice, being a farmer at heart, raised chickens, geese, rabbits, and ducks for family consumption. Each spring a new batch was purchased and butchered in the fall. Doris learned to clean and freeze the meat for the family. She canned and froze multitudes of green beans, corn, pickles, peaches, pears, and tomatoes. She didn't ever have to pick anything from the garden because her hay fever was so bad she couldn't go near it (there were fields with ragweed behind it), so she trained her kids to pick produce. She fixed substantial meals every day and would wake her children by saying, "Rise and shine. What would you like for breakfast?" She would make eggs or hot cereals as requested. She did laundry with a wringer washing machine and dried it on clothes lines for a few years before getting an automatic washing machine and dryer. She worked hard around the house and was a cub scout den mother for a little while. She sometimes worked at voting booths on election day. She loved crickets and had a large one in the basement one year that she enjoyed listening to. Unfortunately, she stepped on it and regretted it for years. The family had what it needed and usually not much more, except for an in ground swimming pool that Maurice purchased in 1959. The family took vacations, but not every year. Maurice had grown up in Vermont, so that was one vacation spot. Another was an Island in Canada that a friend owned. In the early years they had a Collie that wouldn't stay home and so they didn't keep him long. They had two cats until Dwight developed allergies and the cats had to go. As Dwight got older, they tried a dog named Peppy and the allergies didn't rear up, so the dog stayed and was soon followed by two kittens who also stayed. Peppy only lived 7 years. She was followed by a dog named Boots and then Boots' daughter Mindy. Unfortunately, her marriage was not meant to last a lifetime and she divorced Maurice in 1971. After her divorce, she worked for Owens Illinois for a few years, followed by Lakeside Nursing Home, and then spent a few years as a home health aide. She lived with her parents again until they passed. They moved from Rochester to a house in Hamlin. After her parents were gone, she moved into an apartment in Brockport, followed by one in Greece, and then into Resch Commons, where she lived until she died. She loved living at Resch Commons and didn't want to leave it, even though she was approaching the point of needing assisted living. She didn't have to leave her Resch Commons. The 1970's and early 80's brought her four grandchildren: Shannon and Chris Manners and Andrew and Stephen Campbell. The 1990's and 2000's brought her four great-grandchildren: Jarek, Collin, and Ava Manners, and Garrett Goethals. Doris loved chocolate, spending time with family, stuffed animals, knick-knacks, gift shops, watching sea gulls fly in the sunshine under a dark sky, NCIS and Mark Harmon, Abbott's chocolate almond, boat rides, dragonflies, and carousels. She was an avid collector of stuffed animals and knick-knacks. She loved walking on park trails and bird watching. She was a cheerful, strong person who was not afraid to speak her mind. On August 8 she fell at home. She was taken by ambulance to Unity Hospital where they admitted her to monitor her atrial fibrillation. She was feeling well and loved the attention she was getting there. She was so happy she seemed bubbly. She was to go a skilled nursing facility on August 13th for walking rehabilitation before returning home. At 6:30PM August 12th she was helped to the bathroom and was fine except for having some gas. At 6:45 she was found unresponsive; time of death was recorded as 7:08PM. She missed facing a future of deteriorating health with congestive heart failure. If we could choose, I think we would all choose to go like this. It's never going to be good for those who are left behind.