PFC Vernon E. Kemper
1910 – 1973
USAR
WWII
Vernon Edward Kemper was born June 5, 1910 in Northbrook, to Edward G. and Lorena Fitch Kemper.
He married Portia Billings in Barrington in 1932, and they had two children. They lived in Barrington and Waukegan before divorcing in 1941.
Kemper was inducted into the U.S. Army on August 2, 1943 in Los Angeles; he was honorably discharged as a Private First Class on November 18, 1945.
On October 26, 1946, Kemper married Helen Marie Wahler in Monroe, Wisconsin.
Kemper had a varied professional career: he serviced and collected automatic musical instruments, was a member of the Wentworth Singing Towers (of J. G. Wentworth “opera” commercials), and a serviceman for water softeners.
PFC Vernon Kemper died June 17, 1973 in Round Lake, Illinois, and is buried with his wife and parents in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.