William F. Kamp, who with his elder brother, Henry founded a landmark Oklahoma City grocery and market 66 years ago, died early today in Bethany General Hospital at age 84.
Services for Kamp will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wesley United Methodist Church, across the street from the Kamp Bros. Grocery at NW 25 and Classen. Internment directed by Guardian-Watts Funeral Home will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday.
Kamp emigrated from Germany with his parents and six brothers and sisters in 1906, settling in St. Louis, MO. The family's ancesterial home is Ulm, Germany.
Four years later, 18-year old William Kamp joined his brother Henry in Oklahoma City and the young men established their grocery business NW 25 and Classen, where it still remains.
Last month, the Oklhoma Historical Society unveiled a plaque at Kamp's designating the store as a Oklahoma historic site.
When the Kamp brothers opened their business, the general store featured groceries, glassware, tinware, chinaware, hay and feed. Deliveries were made with horse and wagon and at one time the business boasted a stable of seven horses.
One brother worked in the store and the other drove a horse and wagon to drum up business during the early years. Many of the first customers, like the Kamps, were of German ancestry. Today Kamp's is recoginized as an Oklahoma City institution and the clientele is made up partly of third and fourth generation shoppers.
After William and Henry Kamp set up their business, then sent for a third brother, Fred. The three men are considered to bo co-founders of Kamp's. William Kamp retired three years ago.
William Kamp was a charter member of Zion Evangaelical Church, a congregation which for many years held services in the German language. The church later became Zion United Church of Christ, a part of a new evangelical and reformed denomination.
Survivors include his wife, Anna, of the home at 1318 Sherwood Lane; two sons, William H., of 3111 NW 7o, and John F., Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd VonTungeln, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Jim Parrish, Sierre Madre, Calif., two stepdaughters, Mrs. Wallace Westervelt, Tulsa, and Mrs. Tom Dutton, Dothan, Ala; three brothers, Henry and Fred W. of Oklahoma City and Ernest, St. Louis, MO., two sisters, Mrs. A. Walton and Mrs. William Klein, Oklahoma City. Eighteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.
Oklahoma City Times 1 December 1976
Services for Kamp will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wesley United Methodist Church, across the street from the Kamp Bros. Grocery at NW 25 and Classen. Internment directed by Guardian-Watts Funeral Home will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday.
Kamp emigrated from Germany with his parents and six brothers and sisters in 1906, settling in St. Louis, MO. The family's ancesterial home is Ulm, Germany.
Four years later, 18-year old William Kamp joined his brother Henry in Oklahoma City and the young men established their grocery business NW 25 and Classen, where it still remains.
Last month, the Oklhoma Historical Society unveiled a plaque at Kamp's designating the store as a Oklahoma historic site.
When the Kamp brothers opened their business, the general store featured groceries, glassware, tinware, chinaware, hay and feed. Deliveries were made with horse and wagon and at one time the business boasted a stable of seven horses.
One brother worked in the store and the other drove a horse and wagon to drum up business during the early years. Many of the first customers, like the Kamps, were of German ancestry. Today Kamp's is recoginized as an Oklahoma City institution and the clientele is made up partly of third and fourth generation shoppers.
After William and Henry Kamp set up their business, then sent for a third brother, Fred. The three men are considered to bo co-founders of Kamp's. William Kamp retired three years ago.
William Kamp was a charter member of Zion Evangaelical Church, a congregation which for many years held services in the German language. The church later became Zion United Church of Christ, a part of a new evangelical and reformed denomination.
Survivors include his wife, Anna, of the home at 1318 Sherwood Lane; two sons, William H., of 3111 NW 7o, and John F., Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd VonTungeln, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Jim Parrish, Sierre Madre, Calif., two stepdaughters, Mrs. Wallace Westervelt, Tulsa, and Mrs. Tom Dutton, Dothan, Ala; three brothers, Henry and Fred W. of Oklahoma City and Ernest, St. Louis, MO., two sisters, Mrs. A. Walton and Mrs. William Klein, Oklahoma City. Eighteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.
Oklahoma City Times 1 December 1976
William F. Kamp, who with his elder brother, Henry founded a landmark Oklahoma City grocery and market 66 years ago, died early today in Bethany General Hospital at age 84.
Services for Kamp will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wesley United Methodist Church, across the street from the Kamp Bros. Grocery at NW 25 and Classen. Internment directed by Guardian-Watts Funeral Home will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday.
Kamp emigrated from Germany with his parents and six brothers and sisters in 1906, settling in St. Louis, MO. The family's ancesterial home is Ulm, Germany.
Four years later, 18-year old William Kamp joined his brother Henry in Oklahoma City and the young men established their grocery business NW 25 and Classen, where it still remains.
Last month, the Oklhoma Historical Society unveiled a plaque at Kamp's designating the store as a Oklahoma historic site.
When the Kamp brothers opened their business, the general store featured groceries, glassware, tinware, chinaware, hay and feed. Deliveries were made with horse and wagon and at one time the business boasted a stable of seven horses.
One brother worked in the store and the other drove a horse and wagon to drum up business during the early years. Many of the first customers, like the Kamps, were of German ancestry. Today Kamp's is recoginized as an Oklahoma City institution and the clientele is made up partly of third and fourth generation shoppers.
After William and Henry Kamp set up their business, then sent for a third brother, Fred. The three men are considered to bo co-founders of Kamp's. William Kamp retired three years ago.
William Kamp was a charter member of Zion Evangaelical Church, a congregation which for many years held services in the German language. The church later became Zion United Church of Christ, a part of a new evangelical and reformed denomination.
Survivors include his wife, Anna, of the home at 1318 Sherwood Lane; two sons, William H., of 3111 NW 7o, and John F., Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd VonTungeln, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Jim Parrish, Sierre Madre, Calif., two stepdaughters, Mrs. Wallace Westervelt, Tulsa, and Mrs. Tom Dutton, Dothan, Ala; three brothers, Henry and Fred W. of Oklahoma City and Ernest, St. Louis, MO., two sisters, Mrs. A. Walton and Mrs. William Klein, Oklahoma City. Eighteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.
Oklahoma City Times 1 December 1976
Services for Kamp will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wesley United Methodist Church, across the street from the Kamp Bros. Grocery at NW 25 and Classen. Internment directed by Guardian-Watts Funeral Home will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday.
Kamp emigrated from Germany with his parents and six brothers and sisters in 1906, settling in St. Louis, MO. The family's ancesterial home is Ulm, Germany.
Four years later, 18-year old William Kamp joined his brother Henry in Oklahoma City and the young men established their grocery business NW 25 and Classen, where it still remains.
Last month, the Oklhoma Historical Society unveiled a plaque at Kamp's designating the store as a Oklahoma historic site.
When the Kamp brothers opened their business, the general store featured groceries, glassware, tinware, chinaware, hay and feed. Deliveries were made with horse and wagon and at one time the business boasted a stable of seven horses.
One brother worked in the store and the other drove a horse and wagon to drum up business during the early years. Many of the first customers, like the Kamps, were of German ancestry. Today Kamp's is recoginized as an Oklahoma City institution and the clientele is made up partly of third and fourth generation shoppers.
After William and Henry Kamp set up their business, then sent for a third brother, Fred. The three men are considered to bo co-founders of Kamp's. William Kamp retired three years ago.
William Kamp was a charter member of Zion Evangaelical Church, a congregation which for many years held services in the German language. The church later became Zion United Church of Christ, a part of a new evangelical and reformed denomination.
Survivors include his wife, Anna, of the home at 1318 Sherwood Lane; two sons, William H., of 3111 NW 7o, and John F., Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. Lloyd VonTungeln, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Jim Parrish, Sierre Madre, Calif., two stepdaughters, Mrs. Wallace Westervelt, Tulsa, and Mrs. Tom Dutton, Dothan, Ala; three brothers, Henry and Fred W. of Oklahoma City and Ernest, St. Louis, MO., two sisters, Mrs. A. Walton and Mrs. William Klein, Oklahoma City. Eighteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.
Oklahoma City Times 1 December 1976
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