Harold "Hal" Hampel
1926 - 2016
Harold Foster 'Hal' Hampel, 89, passed on June 30, 2016 after a brief battle with pneumonia.
Hal, as he was also known, was the second of three children born to Peter Joseph Hampel and Kathleen Audley Foster. Harold spent his youth in Oakland, CA before moving to Palo Alto, CA.
After graduating from Palo Alto High School, Hal enlisted in the Army. After WW II he served as a staff photographer for a General in Japan.
In 1950 he met Alice Adele Holzknecht, and the two were married at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Oakland on July 8, 1951. They settled in Palo Alto and had three children. In 1951 he started work at Hewlett Packard. In 1977, HP transferred Harold to work in the Hewlett-Packard plant in Boise, Idaho. He retired from HP as a computer programmer after 38 years.
Throughout his life he had a passion for photography, the outdoors and working in his wood shop. At every available opportunity Hal would take off with friends or family to camp, hike or fish, venturing to places such as Yosemite, the High Sierras or deep sea fishing outside San Francisco Bay. Evenings you would find him in his workshop with one of his many projects. His handiwork spilled out to family and friends, and the surrounding community. Through it all, everyone and everything was captured in nearly 10,000 photographs, all catalogued and indexed. He was typically quiet and unassuming, yet, ask him about any of his passions and he would talk for hours.
Harold is survived by a son, Clifton Hampel of Boise; a daughter, Tekla (Scott) Staley of Howe, Idaho; a grandson, Nathan Hampel of Huntington Beach, CA, and numerous nieces, nephews and in-laws.
Preceding Harold in death were his parents; his sister, JoAnn (Hampel) Brunel; a son, Philip Hampel; his brother, Peter Hampel; and his wife, Adele.
A memorial mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2016, at St. Mark's Catholic Community Church, 7960 Northview St., Boise, ID 83704.
A reception will follow at the church.
After the reception, all are invited to join us at 3:00 p.m. for the 20 minute interment ceremony at the Idaho State Veteran's Cemetery, 10100 N. Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, ID 83714.
Tributes, memories or condolences may be left for the family by visiting http://www.cremationsociety-idaho.com/obituaries/Harold-Foster-Hampel-4632626447/#!/TributeWall.
Published in Idaho Statesman on July 24, 2016
1926 - 2016
Harold Foster 'Hal' Hampel, 89, passed on June 30, 2016 after a brief battle with pneumonia.
Hal, as he was also known, was the second of three children born to Peter Joseph Hampel and Kathleen Audley Foster. Harold spent his youth in Oakland, CA before moving to Palo Alto, CA.
After graduating from Palo Alto High School, Hal enlisted in the Army. After WW II he served as a staff photographer for a General in Japan.
In 1950 he met Alice Adele Holzknecht, and the two were married at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Oakland on July 8, 1951. They settled in Palo Alto and had three children. In 1951 he started work at Hewlett Packard. In 1977, HP transferred Harold to work in the Hewlett-Packard plant in Boise, Idaho. He retired from HP as a computer programmer after 38 years.
Throughout his life he had a passion for photography, the outdoors and working in his wood shop. At every available opportunity Hal would take off with friends or family to camp, hike or fish, venturing to places such as Yosemite, the High Sierras or deep sea fishing outside San Francisco Bay. Evenings you would find him in his workshop with one of his many projects. His handiwork spilled out to family and friends, and the surrounding community. Through it all, everyone and everything was captured in nearly 10,000 photographs, all catalogued and indexed. He was typically quiet and unassuming, yet, ask him about any of his passions and he would talk for hours.
Harold is survived by a son, Clifton Hampel of Boise; a daughter, Tekla (Scott) Staley of Howe, Idaho; a grandson, Nathan Hampel of Huntington Beach, CA, and numerous nieces, nephews and in-laws.
Preceding Harold in death were his parents; his sister, JoAnn (Hampel) Brunel; a son, Philip Hampel; his brother, Peter Hampel; and his wife, Adele.
A memorial mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2016, at St. Mark's Catholic Community Church, 7960 Northview St., Boise, ID 83704.
A reception will follow at the church.
After the reception, all are invited to join us at 3:00 p.m. for the 20 minute interment ceremony at the Idaho State Veteran's Cemetery, 10100 N. Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, ID 83714.
Tributes, memories or condolences may be left for the family by visiting http://www.cremationsociety-idaho.com/obituaries/Harold-Foster-Hampel-4632626447/#!/TributeWall.
Published in Idaho Statesman on July 24, 2016
Harold "Hal" Hampel
1926 - 2016
Harold Foster 'Hal' Hampel, 89, passed on June 30, 2016 after a brief battle with pneumonia.
Hal, as he was also known, was the second of three children born to Peter Joseph Hampel and Kathleen Audley Foster. Harold spent his youth in Oakland, CA before moving to Palo Alto, CA.
After graduating from Palo Alto High School, Hal enlisted in the Army. After WW II he served as a staff photographer for a General in Japan.
In 1950 he met Alice Adele Holzknecht, and the two were married at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Oakland on July 8, 1951. They settled in Palo Alto and had three children. In 1951 he started work at Hewlett Packard. In 1977, HP transferred Harold to work in the Hewlett-Packard plant in Boise, Idaho. He retired from HP as a computer programmer after 38 years.
Throughout his life he had a passion for photography, the outdoors and working in his wood shop. At every available opportunity Hal would take off with friends or family to camp, hike or fish, venturing to places such as Yosemite, the High Sierras or deep sea fishing outside San Francisco Bay. Evenings you would find him in his workshop with one of his many projects. His handiwork spilled out to family and friends, and the surrounding community. Through it all, everyone and everything was captured in nearly 10,000 photographs, all catalogued and indexed. He was typically quiet and unassuming, yet, ask him about any of his passions and he would talk for hours.
Harold is survived by a son, Clifton Hampel of Boise; a daughter, Tekla (Scott) Staley of Howe, Idaho; a grandson, Nathan Hampel of Huntington Beach, CA, and numerous nieces, nephews and in-laws.
Preceding Harold in death were his parents; his sister, JoAnn (Hampel) Brunel; a son, Philip Hampel; his brother, Peter Hampel; and his wife, Adele.
A memorial mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2016, at St. Mark's Catholic Community Church, 7960 Northview St., Boise, ID 83704.
A reception will follow at the church.
After the reception, all are invited to join us at 3:00 p.m. for the 20 minute interment ceremony at the Idaho State Veteran's Cemetery, 10100 N. Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, ID 83714.
Tributes, memories or condolences may be left for the family by visiting http://www.cremationsociety-idaho.com/obituaries/Harold-Foster-Hampel-4632626447/#!/TributeWall.
Published in Idaho Statesman on July 24, 2016
1926 - 2016
Harold Foster 'Hal' Hampel, 89, passed on June 30, 2016 after a brief battle with pneumonia.
Hal, as he was also known, was the second of three children born to Peter Joseph Hampel and Kathleen Audley Foster. Harold spent his youth in Oakland, CA before moving to Palo Alto, CA.
After graduating from Palo Alto High School, Hal enlisted in the Army. After WW II he served as a staff photographer for a General in Japan.
In 1950 he met Alice Adele Holzknecht, and the two were married at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Oakland on July 8, 1951. They settled in Palo Alto and had three children. In 1951 he started work at Hewlett Packard. In 1977, HP transferred Harold to work in the Hewlett-Packard plant in Boise, Idaho. He retired from HP as a computer programmer after 38 years.
Throughout his life he had a passion for photography, the outdoors and working in his wood shop. At every available opportunity Hal would take off with friends or family to camp, hike or fish, venturing to places such as Yosemite, the High Sierras or deep sea fishing outside San Francisco Bay. Evenings you would find him in his workshop with one of his many projects. His handiwork spilled out to family and friends, and the surrounding community. Through it all, everyone and everything was captured in nearly 10,000 photographs, all catalogued and indexed. He was typically quiet and unassuming, yet, ask him about any of his passions and he would talk for hours.
Harold is survived by a son, Clifton Hampel of Boise; a daughter, Tekla (Scott) Staley of Howe, Idaho; a grandson, Nathan Hampel of Huntington Beach, CA, and numerous nieces, nephews and in-laws.
Preceding Harold in death were his parents; his sister, JoAnn (Hampel) Brunel; a son, Philip Hampel; his brother, Peter Hampel; and his wife, Adele.
A memorial mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2016, at St. Mark's Catholic Community Church, 7960 Northview St., Boise, ID 83704.
A reception will follow at the church.
After the reception, all are invited to join us at 3:00 p.m. for the 20 minute interment ceremony at the Idaho State Veteran's Cemetery, 10100 N. Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, ID 83714.
Tributes, memories or condolences may be left for the family by visiting http://www.cremationsociety-idaho.com/obituaries/Harold-Foster-Hampel-4632626447/#!/TributeWall.
Published in Idaho Statesman on July 24, 2016
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