Arnold John HAMPEL

HAMPEL, HOYT, HABERKAMP, PRITCHARD, GRIFFITH, DENHARTOG, EADS, AUSTIN, CHIPMAN, AX, HEUBERGER, FOSTER, HYDE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2010 at 19:17:17

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
June 2, 1999

GARNER - Arnold "Bub" Hampel, 86, of Garner, passed away Sunday (May 30, 1999) at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, with the Rev. Darrell Weber officiating. Interment will be in Concord Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel, Garner, and one hour prior to services on Thursday at the church.

Arnold "Bub" John Hampel, the son of William John and Bessie (Hoyt) Hampel, was born June 5, 1912, at Raymond, S.D. He moved with his family to Garner where he attended Hancock County schools and in 1930, graduated from Garner High School. He worked for several farmers after graduation. On Nov. 28, 1936, he was married to Dorothy Esther Haberkamp in Garner. They lived in Meservey from 1942 to 1944 where they farmed with Bob and Winnie Pritchard. He also operated a service station and later established a garbage route in Garner with Clarence Nelson. On March 4, 1944, he entered the U.S. Army and served with the 34th Infantry in the Pacific campaign. His unit helped in the retaking of the Island of Corregidor. He was wounded on the island of Mindanao on June 19, 1945. After months of hospitalization, Bub received his discharge from Percy Jones Hospital in Michigan on Aug. 22, 1946. He returned to Garner and was employed at the Ford garage as parts manager. In 1963, Bub and Dorothy moved to Clear Lake and in 1983 returned to Garner and built their retirement home. Due to ill health, Bub had resided at the Good Shepherd Health Care Center in Mason City for the past several years. He enjoyed children, fishing, hunting and flower gardening. He was a member of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, a life member of the Garner American Legion, V.F.W. Post No. 5515 and the D.A.V.

He is survived by four children, Bill L. Hampel and his wife, Minnie, of Denver, Colo.; Kay J. Griffith and her husband, Michael, of Oxford, Ohio; Patricia J. Hampel, of Boulder, Colo.; and Elizabeth A. DenHartog and her husband, Michael, of Clear Lake; 10 grandchildren, David Hampel, Walter Hampel, Serena Eads, Cameron Griffith, Laura Austin, Arian Hampel, Elise Chipman, Daman DenHartog, Neal DenHartog, Kelsey DenHartog; two great-grandchildren, Christie Lynn Hampel and Kayla Hampel; three sisters, Mildred Ax, of Ventura; Winifred Pritchard, of Osage; and Shirley Heuberger and her husband, Larry, of Reno, Nev.; and a brother-in-law, John Foster, of Waseca, Minn. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Hampel, on Sept. 30, 1998; infant daughter, Barbara A. Hampel; parents; two sisters, Dorothy Foster and Beverly Hyde; and a brother, Earl Hampel. Cataldo Funeral Chapel.