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D.J. Camper Sr.

THE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN

Douglass J. Camper Sr., 96, a dentist and educator, died Saturday at the Liberty Medical Center of complications from a prostate gland condition.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Garrison Boulevard United Methodist Church, 2506 Garrison Blvd.

Born in Baltimore, he was a 1914 graduate of Douglass High School and a 1918 graduate of Morgan, where he was on its first football team. He practiced as a dentist in Philadelphia before beginning his teaching career in 1932.

He is survived by a son, Douglass J. Camper Jr. of Baltimore; a daughter, Cynthia C. Harvey of Baltimore; a foster daughter, Gloria Queen Bruce of New York; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

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