Military
Service:
Marriage:
Magdelena Otilia Haaf
WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services) during WWII
Vincent Fastiggi
June 28, 1945
San Francisco, California
| Parents: Military Service: Marriage: |
Joseph Leander Kampa Magdelena Otilia Haaf WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services) during WWII Vincent Fastiggi June 28, 1945 San Francisco, California |
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| Children: | Isabel Ann | May 20, 1946 | |
| Jane Ellen | May 26, 1951 | ||
| Mary Jill | Feb. 19, 1953 | ||
| Marc Vincent | May 19, 1955 |
| Notes: | In the April 4, 1930 census, Dorothy was 5 years old and living with her parents and older siblings Don, Louise and |
| Gene in the family
home in Claremont, Minnesota. Their house was valued at $2,500
(approximately $25,000 in 2001 dollars) and the family owned a
radio.
When Dorothy was a kid, elder brother Georgie used to call her "Boomer" because of how far her voice carried, according to sister Louise. In July 1934 two weeks after Dorothy's tenth birthday, her beloved mother tragically died of cancer. She was very emotionally dependent upon her mother and profoundly affected by the loss. Sister Louise tells the story of the day their mother died and Dorothy being in shock, skipping rope for hours until exhaustion. The neighbors talked, opining that the poor little girl didn't yet know that her mother had passed away but she knew, her sister sadly related. At the time of the Apr. 2, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Dorothy was 15 years old and living with her elder sister Frances and her husband, George Windhurst, in the Windhursts' own home located at 742 Templeton Ave. in Daly City, San Mateo, California. Both Frances and George had been living at the same place as of Apr. 1, 1935, but Dorothy had been living in Claremont, Dodge, Minnesota at that time. Dorothy was in her first year of high school. George had completed his education through the 8th grade, and Frances had completed two years of college. George was working as a station operator at a service station. He worked 63 hours during the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940, and 52 weeks a year. Dorothy met her future husband, Marine Corporal Vince Fastiggi, in San Francisco when they were both in the service. They had to get his commanding officer's permission to marry as Vince was only 20 years old at the time. They were wed on Dorothy's 21st birthday and made their honeymoon home at 1136 Portola Dr. in San Francisco, California. In 1967 when Dorothy was 43 years old, the Fastiggi family was living at 324 South Regent Street in Stockton, California. Her husband was working as the Vice President Asst. at the Bank of Stockton. Vince would die young ten years later in Stockton at the age of 52. Dorothy was living at 90 Alhambra Street in San Francisco, California in 1980 at the age of 56. Dorothy was in declining health the last few of years of her life but soldiered on with the help of her three devoted daughters, her friends and the staff at the San Francisco Veterans Hospital. She was an enthusiastic San Francisco 49ers football fan and watched one of their games on television the afternoon of the day she died. She passed away at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 with daughters Isabel and Jill and her family at her side at Jill and Kim Seibel's home in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California. She was 88 years old. |
| Ancestry: | The Balder Line |
| The Franz Kampa Line | |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line |
Stimmler/Stimler-Kampa Family Album
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