Richard Lee Kemple

2009-04-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

This old church in Chloride Arizona is where some of my relatives were married in the late 1800s

2009-04-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

Pictures of DeAnna in Oatman Arizona

2009-04-26T19:12:00.000-07:00

In april we visited my great grandfathers grave in Kingman Arizona. He is credited for being the first to discover silver in a sandstone formation. His discovery led to a booming mining town in southern Utah called Silver Reef in the late 1800's. I have a silver dollar that was minted from one of the mines there. The historic Wells Fargo building has been restored and it tells about the history of the town and a picture of him there. There is a house He used to live in that has been restored also. It is in Harrisburg Utah just south of Leeds Utah.

aircraft I worked on

2008-11-17T20:36:00.000-08:00

This is the T-6 Texan like I trained on at Sheppard Air Force Base Texas
The KC135 is for in flight refueling at our Utah ANG Base I have flown around the world and more on this one.

Rebuilt and tested the gear boxes and flight controls on the F18 at Lucas Aerospace
I worked on the Flight controls and servo valves on the V22 Osprey at Lucas Aerospace, Raytheon and Moog aircraft

I had an additional AFSC as a fuel tank specialist and when time allowed I worked on the C124
We replaced the C46 with the C119 at McClellan and I was a chief on it also
I worked on this C54 at Rhine Main AFB Germany as a flight Line Mechanic during the Hungarian air lift

I worked on the C47 At Rhine Main AFB Germany Inspections and repairs

I was Crew chief on this C46 at McClellan AFB calif

power plant opperator

2008-11-17T20:28:00.000-08:00

2008-11-17T10:08:00.000-08:00

OUR FAMILY MEMBERS

Family Night

2008-11-17T08:19:00.000-08:00

Once a month each family takes there turn hosting an evening together with food and fun.
Since John lives in Huntington and Kurtis has moved to Texas our get togethers have dwindled to 2 or ocassionally 3 per month. This is our family together

brothers

2008-11-11T14:46:00.000-08:00

Myself and Brothers out on the dessert west of Goodsprings Nevada looking for the Jupiter Mine
We lived in goodsprings for the first 6 years of my life.

2008-10-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

Our recent trip to St. George led us to the in and out burger several times. Only my brother Jim and myself had the courage to try the double double. That is the only to go now. They are the best thing on the menu.

Church clothes

2008-10-13T16:53:00.000-07:00

On Halloween DeAnna and Myself dressed up as shown above and visited Bishop Draper at the Mill Creek Ward Chapel. There are no words to describe the look on his face as we walked into his office unannounced. He was so shocked it took him several minutes to even recognize us.

2008-09-18T14:52:00.000-07:00

Our son John and grandson Kraymer visited us from Huntington Saturday. Kevin came over from Sandy, so we decided to get a fat boy and shake at Abs for lunch.

Ab started his drive in just down the street from our old home in Hunter, Utah. He began serving steak dinners from the back room of his house at 3500 south 5400 west to support his son on an LDS mission 2 evenings a week which later turned to a fast food . He has now expanded to several locations and discontinued using his home.
I like the fat boy with onions but not grilled onions.

mountain

2008-09-15T20:45:00.000-07:00

This is the view of Kennecott mine from the top of Butterfield canyon just a few miles from where we live.

Mike Lance and myself at the top of Butterfield canyon in the oquirrah Mountains

High speed photography

2008-09-10T10:00:00.001-07:00

These cameras were designed by Vance Parker and built by myself and crew at Sid Nebekers Cordin Co. The picture is the last frame of a hand grenade exploding. We took it at Ireco explosive Co. by Utah Lake.

Myself (High speed photo Tech.) Vance Parker (Electro Mechanical Engineer) Rich Deani (physicist) took the picture