Enlistment March 22, 1918
Discharge May 6, 1919
Departure April 12, 1919, at Brest, France, on the U.S.S. Manchuria
Unit Company H, 137th Infantry
Service Number 2558988
Arrival April 23, 1919, at Hoboken, New Jersey

Frank Anton Kemper, 85, of Manning died Saturday noon, May 18, 1974, at the Carroll Health Center, where he had resided for the past two weeks. He had been ill for a year.

Mass of the resurrection will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church here by the Rev. Norbert Weber, M.S.C. Pallbearers will be nephews, including Lawrence Sporrer, Clarence Vonnahme, Henry Snyder, Kenneth Kemper, Leon Kemper and Frank Irlmeier. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.

The rosary will be recited at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning at 8 p.m. Monday by the parish Altar Society. Fr. Weber will lead a Bible service at 8:30.

Mr. Kemper, son of Anton and Josephine (Dultmeier) Kemper, was born October 17, 1888, on a farm north of Templeton. In 1900 he moved with his family to a farm south of Templeton and lived there until moving to Manning in 1967. He attended Sacred Heart School, Templeton, and served overseas during World War I.

On September 20, 1927, he married Veronica Bierl. He was a member of Sacred Heart Church and the American Legion, both at Manning.

Surviving with his wife are two brothers, Ed and Albert, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Rohe and Mrs. Clair Sporrer, all of Templeton.

He was preceded in death by a 15-month-old daughter, Norma Jean; three sisters, Elizabeth and Kathleen Kemper and Mrs. Frank (Agnes) Irlmeier.