| Parents: Education: Military Service: Marriage: Vocation: |
Joseph Leander Kampa Magdelena Otilia Haaf High school graduate [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] U.S. Navy in submarine service Ruth Eveylin Austin Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 1, 1934 Manager of line business [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] Plastics engineer [Source: 1948 San Francisco City Directory] |
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| Notes: | At the time of the May 5, 1910 U.S. Federal census, George was 4 years old and living with his parents and three |
| siblings in Claremont, Dodge, Minnesota. His father was working as a blacksmith with his own shop, and his parents had been married ten years.
When his baby sister Dorothy was a kid, George used to call her "Boomer" because of how far her voice carried, according to sister Louise. At the time of the 1920 U.S. Federal census, George was 15 years old and living with his parents and six siblings in Claremont, Dodge, Minnesota. His father was working as a blacksmith at his own shop, and his 19-year-old brother Edmund P. was a student attending college. George and three of his other siblings were attending school. In January 1925 George was 19 years old, in the Navy and stationed at Mare Island, California. At the time of the Apr. 1, 1940 U.S. Federal census, George was 35 years old and living with his 32-year-old wife Ruth and 17-year-old brother-in-law, Clinton Austin, in a home they rented for $50/month at 5223 West Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was employed as the manager of a line business, working 48 hours during the week of Mar. 24-30, 1940. Ruth was employed as a librarian at a public school, working 40 hours during that same time period. She worked 49 weeks a year and earned $1,660. As of Apr. 1, 1935, George was living in Milwaukee and Ruth was living in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He had completed four years of high school education and she had completed four years of college; brother-in-law Clinton had finished one year of high school in 1940. George and his wife Ruth were living at 11 Hopkins in San Francisco, California in 1948. He was working as a plastics engineer at the time. George died on Apr. 18, 1979 in San Jose, Santa Clara, California. He was 73 years old. |
| Ancestry: | The Balder Line |
| The Franz Kampa Line | |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line |
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"Me on my bike. I have a bike to use at the barracks. Those are our barracks."
January 1925 Mare Island, California |
"Al Eschert and me"
January 1925 Mare Island, California |

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