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KEMPLIN, Anna Catherine (Webb)
Garden County News (Nebraska); Thursday 2 March 1967; pgs. 1 & 16
Transcribed by a volunteer researcher Rosalie Orr; presented as typed.

ANNA KEMPLIN PASSES AWAY

            Anna Catherine Webb, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Webb and Mellisa (Line) Webb, was born at Marion, Indiana, July 10, 1872. At the age of four she went with her parents and one brother, George, to Hannible, Missouri, where they resided for ten years, later moving to Kansas City, Kansas. There she met George William Kemplin. The family later moved to Custer, South Dakota, where she and George W. Kemplin were united in marriage in 1890.
            To this union were born several children. There were:  Clytie May, Raymond V., Florence L., Pearl A., and Ernest (Buss) C.
            Mrs. Kemplin was baptized in the First Baptist Church in Lead, South Dakota in 1894. She transferred her membership to the Methodist Church in Lewellen in 1955.
            In 1900 she and her husband file on a homestead 16 1/2 miles northeast of Lewellen. Mr. Kemplin passed away in 1932 while they still lived on this farm. Mrs. Kemplin continued to live on the farm until March 1957, then moved to Oshkosh where she resided until September of 1962 when she moved to a nursing home in Lewellen where she lived until her passing February 25, at the age of 94 years, 7 months, and 15 days.
            She leaves to mourn in passing, three sons Ray and Buss Kemplin of Chicago, Illinois and Vern of Stapleton, two daughters, Florence Crist of Bakersfield, California and Pearl Staples of Oregon City, Oregon and several great, great grandchildren, many other relatives and a host of friends.
            Mrs. Kemplin was preceded in death by her husband and two daughters, Clytie May and Stella A.
            Funeral services were held Wednesday March 1 at 2 p.m. in the Holechek Funeal home at Oshkosh. Rev. Robert Brown officiated.
            Pallbearers were Marion Richards, Charlie Richards, Gerald Bairn, Ray Pike, Murl Allen, and James Philpot.
            Burial was in Ash Hollow Cemetery at Lewellen.