Kempenaar Kendal R. – 1952-2010

ARKENBOUT, BAZAL, HOY, KEMPENAAR, KINDRED, STEGALL, WADLE

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 7/7/2010 at 11:11:07

Kendal R. Kempenaar, 58, of Newton died Friday, June 25, 2010, at his home in Newton.
Funeral Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday July 1, 2010, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home with Pastor Steve Heerema of The Way Church, in Newton presiding.
The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday June 30, 2010, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home. Burial will be at Evergreen Cemetery in Leighton, Iowa.
Survivors include his wife Jane Kempenaar of Newton; son Adam (Sarah) Kempenaar of Chicago; four daugthers, Melissa (Shawn) Hoy of Portland, Ore., Allison (Jeremy) Arkenbout of Atlanta, Megan (Jared) Bazal of Newton and Alexis Kempenaar of Newton; seven grandchildren, Holden, Sophie and Quinn Kempenaar, Owen, Adam and Lauren Hoy and Nicholas Bazal; two sisters Karen (Joseph) Wadle of Knoxville and Sheryl (Ed) Kindred of Northome, Minnesota and his mother, Micki Stegall of Knoxville.
Source: Newton Daily News; Monday, June 28, 2010

Additional information from Wallace Family Funeral Home website:
Kendal R. Kempenaar was born April 30, 1952.
Kendal was preceded in death by his father, Ralph B. Kempenaar.
He was a graduate of Oskaloosa High School in 1970 and CUI in 1974. He graduated from the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in 1975. He served as a Police Officer with the Grinnell Police Department from 1974-1975. He then worked as a Supervisor in the Special Investigations Unit at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance for over 5 years. In 1981, he began working at Allied Insurance/Nationwide Insurance as the Associate Director/Coordinator of the Special Investigations Unit. From 2004 to 2009, Kendal owned SIU Consulting, LLC, where he worked as a private fire and fraud investigator and performed loss control inspections. Since 2009, he had been working as a fire investigator in the SIU at G4S. Kendal had also been an adjunct instructor at Des Moines Area Community College since 1996 and had served as a Jasper County Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff.
Kendal was a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Valedictorian of his class at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, a Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) IAAI, a Senior Claims Law Associate (SCLA), a former board member/editor with IASIU, a Fraud Claims Law Associate (FCLA), and a guest instructor for IAAI Chapters in MO, IA, and NE. He also was a Certified Insurance Fraud Investigator. Kendal was a member of the Kansas City Arson Task Force, the International Association of SIU's and was a former board member and editor of the Iowa Chapter of IAAI. He was also the founder and President of the IA-NE Chapter of IASIU.