Thursday, November 16, 2023
I am deeply saddened to find out Karl has passed. But, I am also extremely thankful to know he loved the Lord and is now in His presence!
It was in the middle 1970's when I met Karl. I was in my middle 20's and was a fairly new and fledgling insurance agent with Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in Dallas, where Karl was also working in management at the time, but not mine unfortunately.
Nevertheless, as it turned out, life insurance sales were not my forte and Karl, being the kind of guy that he was, took it upon himself to hook me up with an opportunity with Southwestern Life Insurance Company as a sales rep in their group health insurance and pension planning department.
Unfortunately, as life so often does to us, our paths diverged and we did not continue our acquaintance as I was placed in the Fort Worth office of Southwestern Life Insurance Company and was required to move to Tarrant County.
Karl's genuine personalness and self-sacrificing care and concern for those around him and his willingness to do whatever he could to help and assist one whenever and however he could was and is incredibly rare in this crazy messed up world where seemingly most people are only concerned about themselves.
The late Oswald Chambers (he of "My Utmost For His Highest") stated that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who, when you are in their presence, make you feel worse, and those who, when you are in their presence, make you feel better. Karl was, most assuredly, in the latter group. He always made you feel better when you were around him.
I am incredibly proud and grateful to have known this man.
Robin Campbell / Arlington, Texas
