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| Kendal R. Kempenaar | |
| April 30, 1952 - June 25, 2010 | |
| Newton, Iowa
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| Visitation: The family will greet friends from 6:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday June 30, 2010 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home. | |
| Funeral Service: 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 01, 2010 at the funeral home. | |
| Interment: Following the funeral service on Thursday, July 01, 2010 at Evergreen Cemetery in Leighton. | |
| Those left to honor Kendal's memory include his wife, Jane of Newton; son, Adam (Sarah) Kempenaar of Chicago, IL; 4 daughters: Melissa (Shawn) Hoy of Portland, OR, Allison (Jeremy) Arkenbout of Atlanta, GA, Megan (Jared) Bazal of Newton, and Alexis Kempenaar of Newton; 7 grandchildren: Holden, Sophie, and Quinn Kempenaar, Owen, Adam, and Lauren Hoy, and Nicholas Bazal; 2 sisters, Karen (Joseph) Wadle of Knoxville, IA and Sheryl (Ed) Kindred of Northome, MN; and his mother, Micki Stegall of Knoxville, IA. | |
| Kendal was preceded in death by his father, Ralph B. Kempenaar. | |
| He was a graduate of Oskaloosa High School in 1970 and CUI in 1974. He graduated from the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in 1975. He served as a Police Officer with the Grinnell Police Department from 1974-1975. He then worked as a Supervisor in the Special Investigations Unit at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance for over 5 years. In 1981, he began working at Allied Insurance/Nationwide Insurance as the Associate Director/Coordinator of the Special Investigations Unit. From 2004 to 2009, Kendal owned SIU Consulting, LLC, where he worked as a private fire and fraud investigator and performed loss control inspections. Since 2009, he had been working as a fire investigator in the SIU at G4S. Kendal had also been an adjunct instructor at Des Moines Area Community College since 1996 and had served as a Jasper County Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff. | |
| Kendal was a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Valedictorian of his class at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, a Certified Fire Investigator (CFI) IAAI, a Senior Claims Law Associate (SCLA), a former board member/editor with IASIU, a Fraud Claims Law Associate (FCLA), and a guest instructor for IAAI Chapters in MO, IA, and NE. He also was a Certified Insurance Fraud Investigator. Kendal was a member of the Kansas City Arson Task Force, the International Association of SIU's and was a former board member and editor of the Iowa Chapter of IAAI. He was also the founder and President of the IA-NE Chapter of IASIU. | |
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