Curling champ enjoyed a rich life

The long life of Lloyd Campbell is to be celebrated on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Regina Funeral Home and Cemetery (4001 Victoria Ave. E.).

Campbell — a Brier champion in 1955 — died May 25 at the William Albert House in Emerald Park. He was 101.

He was a member of an Avonlea-based family curling team that at various times also included his father Sandy and brothers Garnet, Gordon, Donald and Glen.

Garnet skipped a team that included Glen, Lloyd and Sandy to the 1947 Saskatchewan men’s championship. Garnet later threw skip stones on an all-brother team that won the 1955 and 1957 provincial titles.

In 1955, Garnet, Donald (third), Glen (second) and Lloyd (lead) won the Brier title at Regina’s Exhibition Stadium. That victory — the first by a Saskatchewan team in the Brier — took place during the province’s jubilee year.

The 1955 Campbell team was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.

Lloyd Campbell went into farming in 1948 when he bought some land in the Pense area. He became a pedigreed seed grower in 1952 and continued in that capacity until the late 1990s.

Campbell is survived by a sister (Margaret) and a brother (Gordon), four children (Jo, Tamara, Alexander and Erin), four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

“My dad was an major influence in my life,” Jo Campbell Hipkin said. “He was always striving for the best and taught this to us. He led by example.

“He always said if a job was worth doing, it was worth doing well. His bear hugs told me that he loved me. He was generous.”