ROCKLAND — Mary Letitia Fishler Campbell, 91, passed away peacefully July 30, 2013, in Rockland.

She was born Nov. 24, 1921, in Montclair, N.J. On July 18, 1942, she married Ashley Sawyer Campbell, with whom she raised six children.

Art was a life-long passion. She attended the National Academy of Design in New York City after high school, and graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1968. She painted in oil, water and acrylic, and had a solo show in Rockland in 2004. She worked with stained glass and created a memorial at the Appalachian Mountain Club Pinkham Notch Camp in New Hampshire for her son, Benjamin, who died while hiking in Scotland. Her large, bronze, outdoor sculptures created at the Shidoni Foundary in Tesuque, N.M., were exhibited in Arizona and are now displayed in New Hampshire and New Mexico. Her illustrations of woody plants for Winter Keys to Woody Plants of Maine (coauthored by son Christopher and Fay Hyland; 1975, University of Maine Press) were praised by reviewers as "superb," "remarkably clear and lifelike," and "alive and certainly among the best available for this purpose." For Open Mandala Journey (1979, Charles F. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont), which was inspired by the writings of Carl Jung, she wrote verse and made ink drawings and watercolor illustrations for 52 images in the mandala form. She earned a master’s degree in art therapy from Vermont College and worked as an art therapist in Berlin, N.H.

Personal growth was a long-term commitment. She studied psychosynthesis at the Synthesis Center in Amherst, Mass., and proprioceptive writing at the Proprioceptive Writing Center in Portland, Maine.

Many enduring friendships, music, t'ai chi ch'uan, family history and anything related to the ocean enriched her life. She loved to read to her children and grandchildren, story after story, and was a great storyteller herself. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She went by the name "Polly" into adulthood and later took the name "Chen Sun" (from the I Ching and signifying endurance), the name by which friends and family knew her. She will long be remembered for her engagement and enthusiasm for life.

She was predeceased by her parents, Bennett Hill Fishler and Mary Cheney Laroche; her older brothers, Franklin and Bennett; and her son, Benjamin Hill Campbell. She is survived by her husband of 71 years, Ashley; her brother, Stuart; her children (spouses), Ashley (Martha) Campbell, Christopher (Margaret) Campbell, Martha (Sam) Gellens, Gordon (Nedine) Campbell and Philip (Mary) Campbell; her grandchildren (spouses), Camilla (Timothy) Shannon, Toby (Anthon) Campbell, Katharine (Brandt) Lewis, Chandra (Ezekiel) Maloney, Benjamin (Marae) Campbell, Rosalie (Ryan) Westenskow, Saadya Gellens, Peter Campbell, and Julia Campbell; and her great grandchildren, Bernadette, Clementine and Heathcliff Lewis, Miriam and Griffin Westenskow, Emma and Henry Shannon, and Nora Campbell.

Her family encourages anyone who wishes to remember her to do so with a gift to a charity of their choice.

At the family's request, private burial will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are in the care of Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home in Rockland. To share a memory with Mrs. Campbell's family, visit her Book of Memories online at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins.