{"id":66,"date":"2012-11-20T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:49:56","slug":"memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Remembrance and Celebration for the Life and Accomplishments of<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Klompas<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0November 20, 2012, <\/strong>6:00 PM<\/p>\n

St. Luke\u2019s On The Hill,
\nMechanicville NY<\/p>\n

The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.
\n<\/em><\/strong>Proverbs 20:7 NKJV<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Klompas was born on December 13, 1924 in Andrew Alberta, to Metro Klompas and Zonia Radomsky Klompas. The third of five children (John, Bill, Nick, Peter, Angie), he was the first to go to university, graduating in 1947 from the University of British Columbia in Engineering.<\/p>\n

Being offered a place at Orenda in Toronto, he was on the design team of the Iroquois Engine for the Avro Arrow, Canada\u2019s state-of-the-art jet fighter.<\/p>\n

With the cancellation of the Arrow, Nicholas took his Bride, Bernice Humphreys, and his three children, Paul William, Kathryn Elena and Mark Edward to the US.\u00a0 He worked at Continental in Detroit, Pratt and Whitney in Hartford, Curtis Wright in New Jersey, General Electric in Lynn and Schenectady, and ended his career at Williams in Detroit in 1990.<\/p>\n

Nicholas continued his engineering passion well into retirement, presenting papers at ASME Turbo Expo from 2001-2004 and continuing to offer his views into 2011.<\/p>\n

Nicholas\u2019 delight was his family.\u00a0 Mark and Linda were married and have five children together Rebecca, Danielle, Matthew, Jonathan and Madison.<\/p>\n

Nicholas and Bernice would often travel during their retirement, everywhere from Moscow to Morocco to Mexico.<\/p>\n

After a fall from a mobility scooter on June 19, 2012, Nicholas was challenged with a broken back.\u00a0 He worked hard to come home to his beloved wife, but an infection from the hospital was eventually insurmountable.\u00a0 He died with his family around him on November 13, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A Remembrance and Celebration for the Life and Accomplishments of Nicholas Klompas \u00a0November 20, 2012, 6:00 PM St. Luke\u2019s On The Hill, Mechanicville NY The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him. Proverbs 20:7 NKJV Nicholas Klompas was born on December 13, 1924 in Andrew Alberta, to Metro Klompas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UaJn-14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.klompas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}