Education:
Vocation:
Marriage:
Marianna Beth Champ
Graduate University of Florida
Peace Corps in Africa
Teaches French in Gainsville, FL
Richard Roger Vistelle
December 27, 1987
Alachua, Florida
| Parents:
Education: Vocation: Marriage: |
Richard Donald Kampa Marianna Beth Champ Graduate University of Florida Peace Corps in Africa Teaches French in Gainsville, FL Richard Roger Vistelle December 27, 1987 Alachua, Florida |
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| Children: | Mélanie "Mel" | Feb. 3, 1990 | |
| Christophe | Oct. 11, 1991 |
| Notes: | (Don Kampa's memories of Kaydie Kampa): "Kaydie is the youngest granddaughter. She was born in Cincinnati in |
| 1963 so we didn't see much
of her until she was a little older. Little girls have always been my favorite
and we always hit it off. The year that she graudated from the University
of Florida, the whole family went on a trip to the Grand Canyon and the
West Coast . . . . "Kaydie and I were always tennis buddies. Dort and I got together with Dick's family at Christmas time or holidays, and sometimes in-between. Whenever we all got together, we'd play tennis. Kaydie was usually my partner. We all played two or three hours of tennis every day. When Kaydie got married, her husband joined our tennis groups and he fit in well with out family. Her husband, Richard Vistelle, was born in France. I guess you could say they met as a result of Kaydie having an accident in Africa. Kaydie had been in the Peace Corps and was assisned to a place in Africa. One day she was riding along a country road on a motorcycle and collided with someone and broke her leg. She had to come back to the states for treatment, so she went back to Gainesville where she enrolled in some classes at the University of Florida. She met Richard there, as he was working at the university in a research program. She got acquainted with him, and evenutally they got married. He has a professorship at the University of Rheims in France, so he is there half-time and in Gainesville half-time. He works on research connected with the pharmaceutical companies. Kaydie was intrigued with France and they set up housekeeping there, and lived in Rheims for a few years. She is a very good linguist. She speaks French, and for awhile, she taught English to the French. She's now in the process of setting up a little school teaching French in Gainesville. They have a little girl and a little boy, Mélanie and Christophe. (That makes twelve great-grandchildren for me.) "Richard and Kaydie spent a lot of time travelling back and forth after they were married, and since they were spending so much time in Florida, they decided to buy Marianna's home in Gainesville. She had a very nice home in an attractive area with a lot of trees. Marianna was selling real estate there, and she decided she wanted a different house, a smaller one. She purchased a home outside of town on a lake. It's in a very scenic spot and she's quite happy with the place. So Richard and Kaydie bought her old house and Kaydie has done a wonderful job of re-decorating and owner and spent hours out there with a pick and shovel planting trees and grass, and flowers. I spent some time in both places this summer. Kaydie had some company from France. We're all very good friends." Kaydie and Richard divided their time between homes on two continents, one at 2616 NW 37th Terrace in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida in the United States and another in Reims, France where Richard worked, first as a professor and later as president, at the local university. Kaydie would use their Reims home as a base when she led her summer tours of Provence. |
| Ancestry: | The Carl Balder Line |
| The Franz Kampa Line | |
| The Jean Stimmler/Stimler Line |
Stimmler/Stimler-Kampa Family Album
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