| Parents: Marriage: Education: Occupation: |
Franklin Benjamin Rogers Susan A. Keener Leslie Eugene Kampa June 5, 1932 Monroe, Monroe, Michigan Graduated Adrian High School [Class of 1932] Bookkeeper for Maple City Rug Cleaners [Source: U.S. City Directories for Adrian, Michigan, 1953 and 1958] |
| Children: | Karol Ann | Abt. 1936 |
| Notes: | Geraldine F. Rogers was born on Dec. 2, 1913, in Litchfield, Michigan, when her father, Franklin, was 50, and her mother, Susan, was 34. |
She was 6 years old and living at 834 Erie St. in Adrian, Michigan with her parents, two siblings, and a 24-year-old boarder, Vernon McAdams (working as a clerk), as of Jan. 2, 1920. Her father was working as the proprietor of a grocery store. She was living in the family home at 725 Church St. in Adrian, Michigan worth $4,500 with her folks and her 27-year-old brother Leon at the time of the U.S. federal census on Apr. 2, 1930. The family owned a radio. Both her brother and her father were working as retail merchants in the furniture industry. Her parents were married when her father was 35 and her mother was 21 years old. Geraldine played the cello in the four-member String Ensemble directed by Miss Scammon, which performed many times in public during her high school days. The other members of the Ensemble were Rose Leininger (1st violin), Harriet Bean (2nd violin), and Ruby Webster (viola). In 1930 they played at the Father and Son Banquet at the Y.M.C.A. and at a banquet given by the Peerless Fence Company. They entered the state music contest at Ypsilanti and took second place in the preliminaries. The girls did not receive school credit for their work; they did it for the joy of being in the quartet. Geraldine F. Rogers married Leslie Eugene Kampa in Monroe, Michigan, on June 5, 1932, when she was 18 years old. In 1934 when she was 20 years old, Leslie and Geraldine Kampa were living at 814 N. Main in Adrian, Michigan. Leslie was working as a clerk at the Great A&P Tea Company. His parents were living in the same town at 245 W. Church. [Source: 1934 Adrian City Directory] As of Apr. 1, 1935, Leslie and Geraldine Kampa were living in Adrian, Michigan, where their daughter Karol Ann was born in 1936. At the time of the Apr. 29, 1940 U.S. federal census, Geraldine was 26 and husband Leslie was 27 years old. They were living with their 4-year-old daugher in a house rented for $20/month at 6 White in Blissfield, Michigan. Leslie was working 65 hours a week as a manager at the A&P Store. He had worked 52 weeks in 1939. They told the census enumerator that both of them were high school graduates. In 1950 and 1956, both Leslie and Geraldine were listed in the Adrian, Michagan U.S. City Directory as living at 821 Vine in Adrian, Michigan. Leslie was working for Maple City Rug Cleaners. In 1953 Geraldine was listed as working as a bookkeeper for Maple City Rug Cleaners. They were both listed as living at the same address in the 1958 Adrian City Directory. Whens she was 42 years old Geraldine's mother Susan A. Rogers passed away on Oct. 21, 1956, in Adrian, Michigan, at the age of 77. Two years later her father Franklin Benjamin passed away on Feb. 11, 1962, in Adrian, Michigan, at the age of 98. Geraldine's sister Lucille Fern died in December 1984 in Buchanan, Michigan, when Geraldine was 71 years old. Her brother Leon Charles Rogers died on June 24, 1986, in Palm Harbor, Florida, when Geraldine was 72 years old. In the U.S. public records and phone and address books for 1992 and 1994, Leslie and Geraldine were listed as living at 1521 Heather Ridge Blvd. in Dunedin, Florida. Her husband Leslie Eugene passed away on June 20, 1996, in Dunedin, Florida, at the age of 83. They had been married 64 years. Geraldine was living in Clearwater, Florida at 2060 Marilyn St., Apt. 119 and died in Clearwater on Mar. 22, 2005, when she was 91 years old. She was buried next to her husband at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida. |
| Ancestry: | The Balder Line [through marriage] |
| The Franz Kampa Line [through marriage] |
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