TALBOT - Elsie Virginia (Campbell) O'Ferrall, formerly of Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties, Maryland, died peacefully at home on Sept. 3, 2012. The youngest of fourteen children of Levi Boyd Campbell and Elizabeth Helen (Amos) Campbell, she was born on November 24, 1908, in Chrome Hill (Harford County), Maryland. She attended elementary school in Forest Hill, Maryland, and graduated from Jarrettsville High School in Jarrettsville, Maryland, in 1926. Eighty-six years later, at the time of her death, she was still wearing her high school class ring. As a child, she lived at Ferncliff on Rocks Road in Harford County, later moving to the sexton's house at William Watters Methodist Church, where her father became the sexton and where she lived until 1927. Much of her young life centered on activities at the church-Sunday School, reunions in "the Grove," church suppers, and helping her father dig graves. In 1927, she married James Hugh Howard O'Ferrall. In addition to Harford County, she also lived in Baltimore City, Dorchester County, Talbot County, and Queen Anne's County, all in Maryland. The mother of nine children, she was employed at McCrory's Five and Ten Cents Store, in Easton, Maryland, International Playtex Corporation, in Dover, Delaware, and from June of 1961 through July of 1978, she was the U.S. Postmaster at Barclay, Maryland. Upon retirement from the post office, she moved to Green Valley, Arizona, where she lived until 2008 when she went to live with her daughter in Tucson. She maintained her membership in William Watters Methodist Church for a number of years and had been a member of the National League of Postmasters, the National Association of Postmasters of the United States, and she was a life member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. She is survived by four of her nine children, Lois Virginia Baker, Trappe, Md; William Howard O'Ferrall (Peg), San Angelo, Texas; Betty Anne Hood, Lampasas, Texas; and Sharon Kay Miller (Jim), Tucson, Ariz.; 25 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and ten great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by five of her nine children, Robert Lee O'Ferrall (2010), Michael Dennis O'Ferrall (2007), James Patrick O'Ferrall (2003); Patricia Dee Matthews (1991); and Elsie Kathleen Winterstein (1975); one grandchild, William Lee Winterstein, Jr. (1976); her brothers and sisters, Ada Reed Kammerer, Walter William Campbell, Warden Levi Campbell, Wilson Campbell, Robert Warren Campbell, Ethel Viola Howard, Odella Mae Campbell, Neva Lillian Issenock, Alva Estella Bayless, Abarilla Myrtle Bayless DeVoe, Ollie Amos Campbell, Mary Katherine Stambaugh, Jane Elizabeth Streett; her beloved uncle, William Watson Campbell; and her parents. A celebration of Elsie's life will be held at 2:00 pm. on October 6, 2012. at William Watters Memorial United Methodist Church, 1452 Jarrettsville Road, Jarrettsville, Maryland. Memorial donations in Elsie's name may be made to Casa de la Luz Hospice, 7740 N. Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona 85704.