David Colin Campbell
Oct. 5, 1942 - May 8, 2025
David Campbell age 82, died in Bakersfield, CA on May 8, 2025, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
David was born in Hancock, ME, a surprise third child to Charlotte Hubbard Campbell and Rev. Thomas Campbell. He grew up in the New England towns where his father pastored and spent every summer near extended family in the Maine town where his mother’s family had lived since before the revolution. As a young adult, he worked as a counselor at Camp Chewonki in Edgecomb, Maine, where he led outdoor adventures, hikes up Mt. Katahdin and canoe trips in the Maine waterways.
Like his father and older brother, David was called to church ministries, and pursued his profession through studies at Bates College (‘64), Union Theological Seminary (‘69) and New York Theological Seminary (‘75). In the summer of ‘66, he joined a group of Union divinity students for a year working and living in Georgia with a Civil Rights voter registration project — an experience that sculpted his heart and worldview. He went on to lead churches in Maine before accepting a post in Bakersfield with College Heights Congregational Church.
After almost two decades as a pastor, he traded the pulpit for a chalkboard, and the congregation
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