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.
Sandy worked in the general counsel’s office at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for 20 years.
For most of that time, he raised his family in Derwood, Maryland. He spent the last 10 years of his career as an administrative law judge for the U.S.
Department of Labor in Newport News, Virginia, before retiring in 2004. In retirement, Sandy taught food and drug law at William & Mary Law School. He was an elder and adult Sunday school teacher at Williamsburg Presbyterian Church.
He was president of the Williamsburg Stamp Club for 13 years. He was predeceased by his parents, Fletcher Evans Sr. and Frances Morgan Campbell.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, the Rev. Virginia (Gini) Campbell; their three children—Nancy (Mike) of Alexandria, Virginia, Richard (Lauren) of Westfield, Indiana, and Stephen (Ashley) of Providence Forge, Virginia; and five grandchildren—Anderson, Beckett, Wells, Maren and Owen. The family would like to thank Commonwealth Senior Living and Medi Home Health and Hospice for their compassion in taking care of Sandy over the last seven months.
A memorial service will be held at Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, 250 Richmond Rd., on Saturday, Aug. 24 at 11 a.
m. His ashes will be placed in the columbarium at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army Williamsburg Corps or the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church endowment fund.
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