Birth: January 31, 1941 Death: August 11, 2024 Fletcher (Sandy) Evans Campbell OBITUARY Fletcher (Sandy) Evans Campbell Jr., 83, of Williamsburg, Virginia, passed away Aug. 11, 2024.
Sandy was a devout Christian and a proud, loving husband, father and grandpa. He was kind with a rather old-fashioned sense of humor. He was an avid stamp collector.
He loved history, traveling and Philly sports teams. He enjoyed politics, the 6 o’clock news, diet soda, trains and hymns. He preferred to spend a day at an art museum rather than the beach.
He never learned to operate a flip phone, much less a smartphone. He had an endearingly bad fashion sense. His favorite foods ranged from lobster tail to peanut butter and crackers—and he ate everything astonishingly slowly.
He loved to read historical fiction and the Sunday newspaper. He fancied himself a punster—he’ll read this obituary from heaven and with a smile say it’s dead on. Sandy was born in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan.
31, 1941. At age 10, his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where he graduated from Friends School. He graduated from Oberlin College and Harvard Law School.
After serving in the Vietnam War as a member of the U.S. Air Force Security Police at Bien Hoa Air Base, he became the associate attorney general of Delaware.
In 1971, he drafted the Delaware Coastal Zone Act for then-Gov. Russell Peterson. The law continues to protect the Delaware coast’s natural beauty from industrial development.
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