Susan Christian Camp

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Date: Jan 23 2016 12:58 PM

Susan Christian Camp

Mrs. Susan Christian Camp, age 104, widow of Lemuel Dale Camp, died Friday, January 22, 2016 at Extendicare Health Care Center.

The family will receive friends at Byrd Funeral Home on West Main Street from 1-2 on Monday. Graveside services will follow at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Sunset Memorial Park with Minister Philip Dampier of Westgate Church of Christ officiating and Byrd Funeral Home on West Main Street directing.  

In lieu of flowers Mrs. Camp wished to be remembered by a gift to your favorite charity or the Westgate Christian School at 617 Westgate Parkway, Dothan, AL, 36303.

Born Susan Robinson Christian on September 11, 1911, in the Fairview Community, Cullman County, AL, to William John Christian and Lucy Brindley Christian, Susan was one of twin girls, the other being Dixie Ryan Christian.

Instilled from birth in Susan and her siblings were Christian living, the dignity of labor, honestly and conscientiously performed, and the necessity for college or university degrees.

Mrs. Camp attended Berea College, Berea, Kentucky where she graduated in 1933 with a degree in Home Economics.

Mrs. Camp enjoyed many years of work as an educator. Early in her career, she taught in the rural schools of Cullman County, AL and at Young Junior High School in Dothan, AL.

Following this, Mrs. Camp worked as Home Economist with the Farm Security Administration, Coffee County, AL, teaching tenant farmer homemakers to produce, preserve, and store a year-round food supply as well as other skills to upgrade their standard of living. Interrupting her career in education, World War II led Mrs. Camp into foreign assignments in Palestine (now Israel), Egypt, Germany, and Italy where she was responsible for food and other welfare needs of refugees and displaced persons of many nationalities.

Returning to the field of education, Mrs. Camp worked as Nutritionist with the Cooperative Extension Service, the College of Agriculture the Ohio State University, and likewise in the Institute of the Food and Agricultural Science of The University of Florida. She retired the latter in 1971 and moved to Dothan, AL, in 1976.

Mrs. Camp was a member of the Westgate Church of Christ, the Society for Nutrition Education, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and professional honor societies Pi Lamboda Theta and Epsilon Sigma Phi. She spent the past 15 years at The Terrace at Grove Park.

Predeceasing Mrs. Camp in recent years were a brother, Dr. Kenneth G. Christian, M.D. of Guntersville, AL, and sisters, Colfax Christian McDaniel of Arab, AL and Dixie Christian Martin of Dothan, AL.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Marilyn Christian of Guntersville, AL, nieces and nephews, Dr. Kenneth Christian of Holden, ME, Karen Christian of New York, NY and Cheryl Kugler of Claremont, CA; a devoted friend, Sarah Collier of Montgomery, AL and devoted friend and caregiver, Martha Nell Pybus of Dothan, AL.

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