Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 29, 1995 TAG: 9501310081
SECTION: STREET BY STREET PAGE: 7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARY BISHOP STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
She had been an elevator operator at the State and City Building downtown on Campbell Avenue.
"It wasn't much better than she had in Northeast," grandson Terry Campbell said. The windows were leaking, the windowsills were rotting and the floors were in bad shape.
Lula Campbell got tuberculosis and was treated at Catawba Hospital, while her son, Walter, and his wife, Cleo, stayed on at the Gainsboro house.
Lula Campbell had been on Rutherford about 14 years when she got the word for sure: She would have to move again. Her side of the street was torn down; by 1974, she had bought a house deeper into Northwest Roanoke, at 918 Palm Ave.
Terry Campbell never heard his grandmother complain. "She wasn't upset about moving. She didn't dwell on it. It was a nicer house for her to be cared for in. She was glad to have a nice house."
But his cousin, Sandra Jordan, believes her grandmother took it hard.
"Grandma was active and moving around on Rutherford," Jordan said. "By the time she got up to Palm, she was pretty much staying in bed. She wouldn't even look at TV. All of a sudden, she did just get old. I think she pretty much lost the will."
Lula Campbell became an invalid; she died in 1979, in her mid-80s.
by CNB