Neil H. CampbellState Department Official
Neil H. Campbell, 79, a former FBI special agent who held successive positions in the State Department before retiring in 1988 as acting director of the Intergovernmental Affairs Office, died of pneumonia Sept. 25 at the Renaissance Gardens Nursing Home in Silver Spring.
Before his final assignment, Mr. Campbell served as special assistant to Charles Wick, then director of the U.S. Information Agency; director of the Speakers Bureau for the Agency for International Development; assistant to the coordinator of the Food for Peace program; and a senior analyst with the Office of the Inspector General for Foreign Assistance.
In retirement, he worked about two years for the MSM investigative agency in Greenbelt.
Mr. Campbell, a former longtime Annapolis resident, was born in Nashville and raised in Denver. He served in the Army Air Forces at the end of World War II and was stationed in Japan.
He graduated from the University of Colorado, then attended its law school before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1954.
After assignments in the agency's field offices in Baltimore, New York and Washington, he worked in the criminal records division at bureau headquarters, served in media relations and became an authority on juvenile delinquency cases.
He was a member of Toastmasters International and the Maryland Writers Association.
In 2003, he self-published a novel titled "The Morning Star."
Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Helen Campbell of Silver Spring; two sons, Timothy Campbell of Pasadena and Gregg Campbell of Bowie; three daughters, Mary Ryan of Takoma Park, Susan O'Brien of Bowie and Kerry Alder of Columbia; and 10 grandchildren.
Robert Matthew RandallForest Economist
Robert Matthew Randall, 72, a retired forest economist and policy analyst, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Sept. 23 at his Springfield home.
Mr. Randall retired from the Agriculture Department's Forest Service in 1992 as national economist for its fish and wildlife division. Previously, he had been on the policy analysis staff since 1980, when he moved to Washington.
He was born in Aberdeen, Wash., served in the Navy from 1952 to 1956 and graduated from Utah State University. He received a doctoral degree in forest economics in the late 1960s from Oregon State University.
