Jeanette Margaret (Maggie) Campbell, age 76, of Springfield, Missouri, passed away on October 3rd, 2024, at Parkview Health Care Facility in Bolivar, Missouri. Jeanette was born to Cecil Quenton Prather and Doreen Mary Mars on March 4th, 1948, in Winfield, Kansas. She was raised in Modesto, California and graduated from Thomas Downey High School in 1966.

Jeanette was united in marriage to Bruce Angus McLeod of Palo Alto, California in November 1969, in Salem, Oregon and they were married for 12 years. The couple was blessed with two daughters during their marriage, Jennifer and Deborah. Jeanette later married John Gordon Campbell of Santa Cruz, California, in August 1996, and shared 25 years of marriage. Jeanette passed away peacefully in the loving care of the staff at Parkview Health Care Facility on a beautiful sunny Thursday morning at 7:42 am surrounded by her younger siblings, Donald and Catherine, and her two daughters with two of her granddaughters, Samantha and Ariella.

After graduating from Willamette University in English Rhetoric, Jeanette was employed in multiple career fields until she became a teacher who taught middle school math in the Watsonville and Aptos, California school districts. Jeanette’s interim occupations and her interests and hobbies varied widely. She played the piano and violin growing up, which led to playing her violin in the Modesto City Symphony Orchestra and numerous churches as an adult. She became a licensed commercial pilot and flew small seaplanes, acrobatic airplanes, and Cessnas with a single experience of skydiving to prepare herself in case she should have to jump while flying. She became an auto mechanic and owned her own transmission shop for about a year in Tulsa, Oklahoma prior to moving back to California to be closer to family. Once settled back in California with her mechanic skills, she attempted to restore a 1948 GMC pickup truck. Her enthusiastic love of animals, especially dogs, exotic birds, and buffalo, led to her collection of 16 animals while living in a small duplex. She was a very talented left-handed acrylic paint artist and a published author of several mystery romance novels. She also loved family history and created a bound novel of extensive genealogy research for her family. Her primary art subjects were animals, oceans, and mountain scenes with a focus on the American Buffalo. She painted various objects such as gold pans, vinyl records, hand saws, canvas, animal hides, teepees, and large metal farm milk cans.

Jeanette and Gordon established their 40-acre buffalo ranch in Nubieber, California in the mountains east of Mount Shasta until they physically retired and moved to Emmett, Idaho. Her most fulfilling hobby was to participate in pre-1850 Reenactment Rendezvous where they enjoyed living as historical mountain men/women. During Reenactments, she was an era-specific tent trader, selling various crafts and paintings and she participated in muzzle-load rifle shooting competitions winning many awards. She used traditional full-sized native teepees as shelter, practiced era-specific cooking, and won blue ribbon competitions with her buffalo meatloaf. She created various art and woven crafts, including her own period correct clothing, personally tanned buffalo hides, bead work, dream catchers, and quilts.

Jeanette loved the Lord deeply and chose to worship with Non-Denominational Christian Churches and an occasional Assemblies of God congregation depending on where she lived. She especially loved to sing along with old hymns, Sandi Patti, Dallas Holm and Praise, and Maranatha music. Along with her deep love for our Lord and Saviour, Jeanette’s greatest legacy is her family. She is survived by her brother Donald James Prather, sister Catherine Ruth Bacon (maiden Prather), oldest daughter Jennifer Jean Turtle (maiden McLeod) with her three children, Gregory Quinn Seyler, Christian Michael Seyler, and Ariella Joy Turtle, and her youngest daughter Deborah Ann McLeod-Baumbach (maiden McLeod) with her two children, Christina Marie Hoenow and Samantha Jeanne Baumbach.

An Art Gallery Celebration of Life was held in her honor for family, friends, and caregivers in the dining hall at Parkview Health Care Center of Bolivar, Missouri on October 4th, 2024. A sampling of her artwork, crafts, and pictures were displayed for reflection, celebration, and remembrance. Jeanette desired cremation and scattering of her ashes in the mountains when her family could all be together in comfort and remembrance. We will all miss her and her very creative mind with all she contributed during her life.