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People named John Shump

Below are 2 people with the first name John and the last name Shump. Try the Shump Family page if you can't find a particular Collaborative Biography in your family tree.

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John Wesley Shamp was born as the son of John Grafton Shamp (1869-1923) and Emma Catharine Affolter (1880-1911). He grew up in Knox, Jefferson, Ohio, USA, along with his siblings William Floyd Shamp (1901-1973) and Sarah Jane Shamp (1904-1929), as well as his half-sister Catharine "Katie" Viola Shamp (1896-1957). As an adult, John lived in Toronto, Jefferson, Ohio, USA, where he married his first wife, Carrie Elaine Fowler (1916–1945), in 1936 in Brooke County, West Virginia, USA. The couple welcomed one child, a son named William David T Shamp (1939-2002). In 1941, John enlisted in the United States Army at Patterson Field Fairfield, Ohio. He joined the Air Corps as a Private Regular Army and was assigned to the 58th Aircraft Engineer Squadron, 552 Army Air Force Base Unit. As tensions rose in the Pacific, John was sent to the Hawaiian Department, where he served as an aircraft engineer responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft used in combat operations. After nearly five years of service, John was honorably discharged on September 2, 1945. He later moved to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA, in 1949, where he married his second wife, Elizabeth Koci, on June 30 of that same year in Port Huron, St Clair, Michigan, USA. They settled in Garfield Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
John C Shump of Vancouver, Clark County, WA was born on March 8, 1915, and died at age 79 years old on May 10, 1994. John Shump was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section X Site 1072 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland, Or.
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