Fredrick "Fred" W. Kemp

Fredrick “Fred” W. Kemp was born March 3, 1934 in Akron, Ohio to Fredrick W. Kemp and Marjorie L. (Moss) Kemp and raised in Michigan Center, Michigan.

He enlisted in the United States Air Force at age 17 on April 15, 1951 and after basic training at Lackland and Sheppard Air Force Bases in Texas, completed Communications school at Fort Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In December of 1951, departed for Korea on the MSTS Daniel Morton and spent the next 18 months traveling around the Far East to such places as Japan, the Philippines, Okinawa, many islands and finally to Guam before returning to the United States on the MSTS Sultan and an assignment to Cape Charles, Virginia in October of 1953.

In 1956, he departed for Naples, Italy for three years of NATO duty which included many trips around all of Europe before returning to Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee Fall, Massachusetts. After only 18 months at Westover AFB, he spent the next three years at Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid, Spain teaching Communications Operations before returning to Westover AFB for an assignment to the newly formed Strategic Air Command Alternate Airborne Command Post. This assignment led to him being assigned to the newly formed Pacific Air Forces Airborne Command Post called Blue Eagle at Hickman Air Force Base, Hawaii. After a year in the Airborne Command Post, he transferred back to teaching at Hickman Air Force Base until his return to Barksdale Air Force Base where he continued to teach before being assigned again to the Strategic Air Command Alternate Airborne Command Post.

A realignment of the Airborne Command Post in 1970 sent him to Grissom Air Force Base, Bunker Hill, Indiana where he retired in Division, Indiana Department of Natural Resources at the North Regional Headquarters, Peru, Indiana until his retirement in March of 1996. After his second retirement, Fred and his wife Sandra moved to Green Valley, Arizona where Fred volunteered as a Docent for many years at the Titan Missile Museum.

Fred is survived by his wife Sandra and four children: Christopher, Thomas, Fredrick II, and Laurie, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Also surviving are two sisters, Kay and Alice; one brother, Jerry; brother-in-law Eric (Mary Ann) Hollarman; sister-in-law Judy Hollarman; two nephews James Hollarman and Craig (Breona) Hollarman; two great nieces, Delilah and Evalynn; and his beloved dog Molly.

He is preceded in death by his parents, two children: John and Geoffrey, a brother John, and brother-in-law, David Hollarman.

Graveside services will be held on Monday, August 25, 2025 at 1:30pm at Ever-Rest Memorial Park Cemetery, 8315 Logansport Road, Logansport, Indiana 46947. Pastor Rod Correll will officiate the service. Miami County Military Rites will provide military honors.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Flowers-Leedy Funeral Home. Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at www.FlowersLeedyAllen.com.

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