Mary Campoy obituary.

Mary Jo (Burns) Campoy, age 90, passed away July 18, 2025, peacefully at home, as she wished.

Mary was born December 26, 1934 in Manhattan, Kansas to Sylvester Raymond Burns and Laura May Gunter (deceased). She is also preceded in death by her older brother, Sylvester “Buss” Burns; sister Emma (Burns) Souza and her husband of 67 years, Facundo Campoy.

Mary attended Catholic elementary school in Kansas until she was ten when her family moved to Millbrae, California for work in the government at the end of the Second World War. She attended Catholic middle school in Millbrae and went on to Mercy High School in Burlingame.

In 1951 her family moved to Fair Oaks where Mary spent her senior year of high school at San Juan High. This is when she became acquainted with the love of her life, Facundo Campoy. They filled their days swimming at the American River and their evenings hanging out with friends in the old Fair Oaks Village and the occasional thrilling car ride to Sacramento. After graduation she went on to Sacramento City College and held various jobs at  McClellan Air Force base, Norman Bailiff Land Surveyor, and Bell telephone company.

Mary and Facundo married in 1957, purchased a home in Orangevale and went on to have five children. Mary embraced her vocation as a wife and mother, placing it above everything else. She was nurturing and loving and kept the family in perfect order. Always cheerfully supporting her husband and children. Her Catholic faith was so important to her that she enrolled her children in St. Mel Catholic school and encouraged Facundo to move to Fair Oaks, almost across the street from the school.

When all of the children were enrolled in school she got a job at San Juan School District during the day and simultaneously attended  real estate courses. She got her real estate license in 1979 and became a superstar Realtor in the surrounding areas of North Sacramento, earning many awards from her company and the Board of Realtors over the next 30 years. 

Mary was not all work though. She and Facundo went on many fun camping trips over the years and had lots of good times with her family and many friends on holidays, attended by any number of her 5 children,16 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. 

After retirement, she stepped up her devotion to her Catholic faith and became a member of Saint Vincent de Paul Society and a regular at the adoration chapel at St. Mel Church. Her later years were filled with either prayer or laughter. She was the poster girl for eat, pray, love and laugh!  Her laugh was infectious, as many of her friends would call just to get cheered up from hearing it. She lived life perfectly and there is not a doubt that she is fulfilling her eternity with God in heaven. We love you mom and we miss you already.