Olive Thomasina (“Tommye”) Ring Campbell, 94, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, editor, romance novelist, and community activist, died February 18, 2026, at the Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mrs. Campbell was born June 2, 1931, in Winston-Salem, NC, to the late Thomas Hilary and Olive Johnson Ring. Sisters Elizabeth (Betty) Morris, Ida Vaughn Ring, and Nancy Pierson predeceased her.

After graduating with highest honors from George Mason University (GMU) in 1973, Mrs. Campbell worked as editor of the national membership newsletter of the American Physical Therapy Association, retiring in 1989. After retirement, she began writing historical romance novels and had three novels published in the early 1990s under her maiden name, Thomasina Ring.

Originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Mrs. Campbell graduated in 1949 from R.J. Reynolds High School, where, in her senior year, she composed the school’s alma mater “Amid The Pines,” still honored and sung by the school’s student body. She attended Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro for two years before leaving to marry Robert G. Pfefferkorn, Jr. in 1951. She was homemaker and mother for the next 20 years before enrolling in GMU at its Fairfax campus in 1970.

After her divorce from Dr. Pfefferkorn in 1974, Mrs. Campbell lived in the North Fairlington condominium in south Arlington where she served as newsletter editor and, later, as secretary of their Board of Directors. She married John M. Morton, Jr., in 1983 and moved to the Dover Crystal area of north Arlington. She helped organize the Dover Crystal Citizens Association and served as its newsletter editor and on its Executive Board during her residency there. She also served for many years as secretary of the Arlington County Civic Federation and, in 1997, received the group’s highest service award, the prized Journal Cup.

Mr. Morton died in 1998. She married George Colin Campbell, Jr. in 2000 and moved to Lansdowne Woods of Virginia in Loudoun County where Mrs. Campbell served as newsletter editor and on the Board of Directors of The Magnolias condominium of the retirement community. Mr. Campbell died in 2019.

Survivors include a son, Mark W. Pfefferkorn of Lee’s Summit, Missouri; a daughter, Jean Elizabeth Dickson, of Roseland, Virginia; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.