Karen Webb Camp

McKENZIE, Tenn. — Funeral services for Karen Webb Camp are Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at Brummitt McKenzie Funeral Home. The family will receive friends on Friday, at 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. and Saturday morning, 9:30 a.m. until service time. Interment will follow at Mt Olivet Cemetery.

Mrs. Camp died in Jackson, Tenn., on October 21, 2025. She was born on January 14, 1943, in McKenzie to the late Athol Billy and Vaughnell Brush Webb.

A proud member of the McKenzie High School Class of 1960, she was a football cheerleader, a member of the marching band, and a star basketball player for the MHS Rebelettes. She was co-captain of the team her senior year when they advanced to the school’s first-ever TSSAA state tournament appearance. She was named to the 1960 Nashville Banner All-State Tournament Team that year.

She attended UT-Martin after high school, where she was in the first-ever pledge class of UTM’s Chi Omega sorority chapter. After marrying John Camp on June 10, 1962, she and her husband moved to Elkton, Kentucky. She finished her degree in 1964 at Austin Peay State University with a B.S. in Education. While in Elkton, she was an founding member of the Westside church of Christ, which opened in 1965. She also began her teaching career in 1965 at Guthrie (KY) Elementary School.

She and her family returned to McKenzie in 1973 where she fully retired from teaching at McKenzie High School in 2000. She loved the thousands of students she taught over those years and they loved her back.

She was a lifelong member of the McKenzie church of Christ except for the 10 years she lived in Kentucky. She enjoyed a variety of activities, including gardening, reading, local history, spending time with family, watching the Memphis Grizzlies, and visiting with her former students. She always had a soft spot in her heart for young children and animals (especially the many dogs she owned throughout her life), and always possessed a giving heart to those in need.

She is survived by her husband of 63 years, John Camp, and her son Brad Webb Camp, both of McKenzie, her brother Dr. Billy D. Webb of Russellville, Kentucky, and several cousins, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, John Andrew “Andy” Camp, and a sister, Janice Webb Blanks.

For anyone considering a memorial gift, the family suggests either the McKenzie High School Alumni Association (114 W. Bell Ave., McKenzie TN 38201), or The John Andrew “Andy” Camp Memorial Scholarship Fund at Murray State University (Murray State Office of Development,200 Heritage Hall, Murray, KY 42071 as worthy charities.

Brummitt-McKenzie Funeral Home.