ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4/Gray News) – A Missouri resident was preparing for her father’s funeral last June when she got a call. The funeral home told her that her father’s body was ready to be seen, she recalled. The funeral service was scheduled for the following morning.
Brandy Wren chose Serenity Memorial Funeral and Cremation Services on Union Boulevard in St. Louis for her father’s services.
Edward Campbell Sr., better known by family and friends as “Pretty Boy,” died at 66 after a three-year bout of ALS.
Campbell’s nickname was given to him right after birth. A family member remarked that he was pretty, and it stuck through all his 66 years. He served in the Marine Corps as a young man in California and used to teach in the Saint Louis Public Schools District…