Edward (Ted) Kemp

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Transcribed by Judith Kemp Holley

Kemp, Edward (Ted) 1919 – 1944

SERVICES SLATED FOR Pfc. KEMP

Funeral services for Pfc. Edward (Ted) Kemp, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the First Baptist Church in Madison. The Rev. Harold Gregory and the Rev. Oscar Nelson will officiate and Post 105 of the American Legion will be in charge of military services at the grave in the National Cemetery. Until time for the funeral, the body will be at the Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home.

Private Kemp was killed in action Oct. 2, 1944, in the mountains of Northern Ital. Born June 2, 1919, in Old Hickory, Tenn, he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. S.S. Kemp of Madison. He was reared in Old Hickory & Madison & graduated from Isaac Litton High School where he was active in football and baseball..  Before entering the service he was employed by the Newspaper Printing Corp. and by the Piggly Wiggly Stores in Madison.  Private Kemp went into the army in March 1942 & received his training at Ft. Warren, Wyo., Ft. Dix, NJ, the Atlanta Ordnance Base and Camp Sutton, NC. He was sent over seas in Feb. 1943, landing in North Africa. In Sept. 1944, he was sent to Italy and placed in the 133rd Infantry Regiment. He was killed in the initial attack of his regiment.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by Mrs. Loyd Bowles of Madison, Mrs. B.L. Patterson Old Hickory, Mrs. T. B. Burnette, of Chattanooga, and Mrs. Norman Hutton of Courtland Ala., and three brothers, Homer Kemp of Madison, Raymond Kemp of Cookeville, and F/Sgt. Bernard Kemp of San Francisco, California.

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