RALPH JOHN KAMPA

Born: February 19, 1927   St. George Township, Benton, Minnesota
Died: October 30, 2011   Foley, Benton, Minnesota
Burial: November 4, 2011   St. Lawrence Parish Cemetery, Duelm, Benton, Minnesota


Parents:
 
 
Marriage:
 
 
 
 
Occupation:
Louis "Louie" George Kampa
Viola M. Fisher
 
Celestine "Sally" Mary Nickols
June 18, 1951
SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Elrosa, Stearns, Minnesota
 
Farmer engaged in general farming
Ralph John Kampa (1927-2011)

Children: Kevin Gerard Sept. 25, 1959  
  Kimberly Geralyn Apr. 19, 1961  

Notes: At the time of the April 8, 1930 U.S. Federal Census Ralph was 3-1/2 years old and living with his parents and two
  siblings on the family farm in St. George Township, Benton, Minnesota. His parents had been married ten years. His father worked as a farmer in general farming [1930 U.S. Census: St. George, Benton, Minnesota; Roll 1078; Page 5B; Enumeration District 15].
 
At the time of the Apr. 5, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Ralph J. was 13 years old and living with his parents and two siblings on the family farm valued at $800 in St. George Township, Benton, Minnesota. They had been living in the same house on Apr. 1, 1935. Both his father and his mother had completed the 5th grade, as had his 17-year-old brother Joseph L.; the three of them were no longer attending school. Louis was a farmer and Joseph L. was a farm laborer on the family farm. Ralph and his sister Louella M. (age 15) were attending school; he was in the 3rd grade and she was in the 7th.
 
In 1986 when he was 59 years old, Ralph's address was RR 2, POB 74 in Foley, Benton, Minnesota.
 
During a visit to see Ralph and Sally Kampa at the old Kampa family farm in late July 2007, Sally said that Ralph was a spoiled youngest child and that she, Sally, has always taken care of him.
 
Ralph died at home in Foley, Benton, Minnesota on Sunday, October 30, 2011, surrounded by his family. He was 84 years old.

Ancestry: The Balder Line
  The Franz Kampa Line
   
Ralph and Sally Kampa (née Nickols) Wedding, 1951

Dick Kampa talks about the old Kampa homestead in Duelm, 2007

Obituary of Ralph Kampa, St. Cloud Times, Nov. 1, 2011


Ralph and Sally Kampa, July 1999.
Ralph and Sally Kampa
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
July 1999

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