Ruthella Willeen Beck Campbell, 86, of Burlington, died Sunday, March 18, 2007 at the Danville Care Center.  Born September 5, 1920, in Burlington, she was the daughter of Walter L. and Nuel Miller Beck.

            Ms. Campbell graduated form Danville, Iowa High School where she participated in many music and drama activities.  She received her B. A. Degree in Music from Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois where she was a member of several choirs, the symphony orchestra and string quartet.  Her M. A. degree was in Special Education at Southeastern Illinois State University in Chicago.  She also received graduate credit form several other universities, including studying on summer in seven countries in Europe.  This credit was through Ithaca College in New York.

            Her vocal music teaching was done in Mystic and Olds Iowa, Gary, Indiana and Wheat Ridge, Colorado.  She was a Special Education Teacher at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois and Burlington Community High School.  Other positions that Ms. Campbell held were:  Head of the Vocal and Music Department at the Educational Music Bureau in Chicago, Illinois; The Argonne Laboratory in Chicago; The University Extension Office at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.

            She was a member of the Professional Choir, the Chicago Symphonic Choir that gave its concerts in Orchestra Hall in Chicago and several symphony orchestras, including the southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra.  She was also an organist for several churches.

            She was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, AARP and volunteered at the Battered Women’s Shelter after her retirement.

            Survivors include her two sons, Donald B. Campbell and Walter Beck Campbell both of Yreka, California.

            She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and one sister.