Stewart Clayton Kemplin

Special Education Teacher and Coach

Stewart C. Kemplin

Dies Quietly at Local Hospital

     Funeral Service for Stewart Clayton Kemplin, 83,

will be on Tuesday June 23, 2015 at 2:30 P.M. at Green

Hills Memorial Park, 27501 South Western Avenue Rancho

Palos Verdes, California 90275. Pastor Dave Matson

officiating.

     The body will lie in state on Monday evening June

22, 2015 from 5 to 9 P.M. at Rice Mortuary

5310 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA. 90503.

Mr. Kemplin died quietly Friday morning

June 5, 2015 at Harbor UCLA Hospital with his

sons at his side.

     Mr. Kemplin's first job as a young Iowan was

as a paperboy for the state newspaper,

the Des Moines Register.

     Mr. Kemplin graduated from Abraham Lincoln High

School in 1950. After graduation he went to

work for Swanson foods in Council Bluffs.

     Mr. Kemplin in 1952 enlisted in United States Navy

and served during the Korean War as a

Plane Captain with VF-121 Squadron on the U.S.S.

Boxer CVA-21 with the rank of a 3rd Class Petty

Officer.

     After the war he stayed in California and went to

work for Roar Aircraft. However, he soon quit to

pursue a dream. He went back to school on the

G.I. bill to become a teacher.

     Mr. Kemplin attended San Bernardino Valley

Community College and graduated in June 1955.

Next Mr. Kemplin would attend and earn a BS degree

from the University of Redlands in California,

becoming the first in his family to graduate college.

He reached this goal in 1959.

     He was hired as a Special Education teacher and

Coach by the Torrance Unified School District in 1961

and would be a teacher at North Torrance

High School in Torrance California for the next

35 years, retiring in 1996.

     Mr. Kemplin coached many sports while at NHS

including the 1965 Sky league wrestling championship

team, that this year is celebrating the 50 anniversary

of this championship.

     Mr. Kemplin in his retirement would enjoy the

next 19 years always on the move with his family

and friends at the movies, sporting events, book

signings, concerts and spending a lot of time at

Disneyland.

     Mr. Kemplin was born on December 10, 1931

in Council Bluffs Iowa to Mr. William Warren Kemplin

and Wilhemina Helena Steinmeier (Kemplin) the third

son of a family of four children.

     Mr. Kemplin was married to Marilyn Jean

Williamson (Kemplin) of San Bernardino California on

December 29, 1955.

     Mr. Kemplin also was a man of faith and was a

member of the South Bay Church of God inTorrance

and a member of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden

Grove.

     Mr. and Mrs. Kemplin enjoyed life, together for 58

years, while they raised two sons and lived in

North Torrance for 53 years until her death last June

28, 2014.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two

brothers. His middle brother Pfc. Alvin Gerald Kemplin

was killed on the Island of OkinawaJapan on April 23, 1945

just 4 months before the end of World War II.

Alvin was his inspiration for Mr.Kemplin

joining the U.S. Navy.

     Mr. Kemplin's eldest brother Warren Eugene

Kemplin Sr. who gave him his love for movies passed

away in 2002 at 85 years old.

     Survivors include his 94 year old sister Doreen

Lees of Loma Linda, California, and his two sons, Craig

Kemplin and Blaine Kemplin of North Torrance, California.