Nelda Joye Camp, a longtime member of Highland Terrace Baptist Church in Greenville, died Jan. 26 in Garland. She was 96. She was born Nov. 3, 1925, in Campbell to O.T. and Susan White. After she graduated from Greenville High School in 1942, she went to work in the Hunt County School Superintendent’s office. Later, she worked in the personnel office at TEMCO Aircraft when the Greenville plant started production. She married Roy Camp Jr. on Aug. 21, 1954, in Greenville. After she became a fulltime homemaker in 1960, she held leadership roles in PTA, Cub Scouts and various church organizations. She was a member of Highland Terrace Baptist Church more than 40 years, where she was involved in Woman’s Missionary Union and the Sunshine Bible Study Class and served as a church librarian. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1993 and by three sisters—Coy Darby, Evelyn Ingram and Loys Ingram. She is survived by a son, Kenneth Roy Camp and his wife Diane; grandson Daniel Camp and his wife Lindsey; grandson Matthew Camp and his wife Devon; grandson Nathan Camp; four great-grandchildren—Henry, Andrew, Owen and Katherine Joye Camp; a sister, Sandra Oden of DeBerry; and several nieces and nephews. Visitation is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, and a memorial service is scheduled at 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 31, at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home in Greenville.
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