Loren Woodrow Cammon, 86, of Olney died Tuesday, March 2, 1999.  Burial in Hoosier Prairie Cemetery in Clay County.

Mr. Cammon was born March 30, 1912 in Hoosier Township in Clay County in a log house, the son of Hiram and Maude E. (Bible) Cammon. He married Dorothy E. Chaplin July 4, 1938 in Olney.

He served in the United States Navy during WW II in the Pacific Basin being stationed at Pearl Harbor and attained the rank of Lieutenant in Naval Communications.

He taught 17 years at Olney Township High School and served 12 years as Richland County Superintendent of Schools.

He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Olney.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Chaplin Cammon of Olney; two sons, Terry Cammon and his wife, Cathy of Arvada, Colo. and Jim Cammon and his wife, Dolores of Farmington, N.M.; two daughters, Suzi Cammon Lauer of Lawrence, Kans. and Sally Jo Cammon and her husband, Steve Glover of Farmington, N.M.; one brother, Clifford Cammon of Louisville; three sisters, Marie Fritchley of Olney, Josephine Goble of Wood River and Irene Ruffner Diel of Olney; and eleven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Loren C. "Cam" Cammon who died January 26, 1980, a brother and two sisters.

Published in Olney Daily Mail (IL)