Former North Vernon mayor Harold ‘Soup’ Campbell dead at 72

Former North Vernon Mayor Harold “Soup” Campbell

Harold “Soup” Campbell, who served North Vernon as mayor and a city councilman, and Jennings County as sheriff, died Monday at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He was 72.

Campbell was born in Owsley County, Kentucky, on Dec. 17, 1946, but his parents moved the family to North Vernon in 1949.

For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Republic.