Virginia (“Ginny”) Campbell passed peacefully at age 103 on December 23, 2025. Ginny was a vibrant soul, interested in all things and a giving person of great faith who loved people and was blessed to have friends of all ages. “G.G.” was the beloved matriarch of a scattered but close-knit family including her three children, three stepchildren, thirteen grandchildren, over a dozen great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and their descendants. Ginny’s love, humor and constant belief in each member of her family will not be forgotten.
Virginia Pope spent her early years in White Plains, NY then moved to Greensboro NC where her father Russell was a professor at Guilford College. She graduated from Guilford, married and lost her first husband, fighter pilot DeArmas Smith, during WW II. While later attending nursing school at NY Hospital (Cornell Wiell) in New York City, Ginny met and married Doulas Campbell, a WWI flying Ace, in 1947. They moved to Greenwich, CT in 1949, where Ginny lived for the rest of her life. She traveled worldwide with Doug, an airline executive, but home and family were her priority. Ginny and Doug raised their three children while fully embracing and blending his three older children and their descendants into their family.
Ginny supported her children’s participation in the Greenwich School system literary, musical and sports programs. She loved the Greenwich beaches, boating on Long Island sound, was an avid gardener and loved landscaping her Cos Cob property. Within the Greenwich community, Ginny volunteered for 50+ years at Greenwich Hospital and in many capacities at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich. She loved music, regularly attending the Metropolitan Opera and Greenwich Philharmonic. She was a diehard fan of the New York Mets, who replaced her affinity for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
A devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church for over 70 years, Ginny served as a deacon, helped manage rummage sales, played in the bell choir and until recently participated in preparing weekly meals for the homeless. She also created and ran a quilting group for many years in which volunteers made quilts for newborn babies at Greenwich Hospital. The church and the people within it were central to her active service and fulfillment. Ginny was grateful for the love and assistance she received from the FPCG community throughout her life and especially in her later years.
Ginny is survived immediately by her children Susan Campbell Siciliano (Vince) of Oceanside CA, David Campbell (Mischa) of Hamden CT and Ronald Campbell (Jennifer) of Centreville VA and their descendants. She was predeceased by her husband, by sisters Ethyl Pope and Joyce Pope Cormier, and her husband’s children William Renwick Campbell, Douglas Campbell, Jr. (Riverside), and Elisabeth Campbell Morris.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, May 2, 1:00pm at First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, CT.
Ginny’s ashes will be interred next to her husband in the church columbarium at the conclusion of service, immediately followed by a reception in the church social hall. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to First Presbyterian Church https://www.fpcg.org/give. Arrangements made by Fred D. Knapp Funeral Home.,