Ida Kempe

Ida Kempe

• Father: Frank Kempe b. circa May 1860, d. 12 October 1916
• Mother: Ida Alwine Menzer b. 19 July 1868, d. 1 June 1902

• Ida Kempe was born on 8 April 1893 in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
• Frank Kempe and Ida Alwine Menzer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Travis County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ida Kempe, William M. Kempe, Elfrieda Kempe, Gertrude Kempe, Frances G. Kempe and Frank Kempe.
• Her husband Frank Kempe became a widower at her death.
• She married Emery Irl Bourke, son of William Joseph Bourke and Emily Angeline Smith, on 20 November 1909 in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
• William Joseph Bourke and Emily Angeline Smith appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Bend, San Saba County, Texas, living next to their daughter Josephine Jones.. Other members of the household included Ida Kempe, William S. Bourke, Charla (?), William E. Bourke, Cyril Bourke, Joseph E. Bourke, Emery Irl Bourke and Jay Bourke.
• Emery Irl Bourke and Ida Kempe appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 2817 San Fiam??ca Street. Other members of the household included John D. Bourke and Vivian Frances Bourke.
• Ida Kempe became a widow at the 18 March 1950 death of her husband Emery Irl Bourke.
• At the time of her death Ida Kempe was living in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas, at 806 East Wallace Street.
• Ida Kempe died on 21 November 1972 at age 79 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, at Nix Memorial Hospital.
• She was interred at San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 24 November 1972 in The Odessa American: (San Saba): Funeral services were set for 2 p.m. Friday in the Howell-Doran Funeral Home Chapel for Mrs. Ida K. Bourke, 79, who died Tuesday in a San Antonio hospital after an illness.
       Burial was to be in the San Saba City Cemetery.
       Born April 8, 1893, in Travis County, Mrs. Bourke married Emery Bourke in 1909 in Austin. She had resided in San Saba County most of her life. She was a Baptist.
       Survivors include four sons, Raymond Bourke and Jack Bourke, both of San Saba, John Bourke of Midland and Menzie Bourke of Odessa; a brother, Frank Kempe of Fort Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Elfreda Ward and Mrs. Frances Clinkscales, both of Austin; 13 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.
• Source: Information on Ida Alwine Menzer and her her origins from Nancy Sinclair (May 2010), and "Bourke and Bass Families of Texas" by Sylvia Ann Bass (Genealogy.com FTM Online, April 2009).

• Last Edited: 14 Oct 2011