Clifford Earl Lamping

As a young boy, Clifford lived with his parents on a ranch near Baily, Colorado in Park County, southwest of Denver. He attended Deer Creek school until 1945 when his parents sold the ranch and bought the old Ben Tyler ranch from his grandmother Tyler, near Shawnee, CO, a few miles to the west of Baily. Here they raised cattle and hay and Clifford attended school at Longmeadow through the eighth grade. For a while he attended St. Joseph Catholic school in Denver until the four school districts near Bailey consolidated into one district in Bailey and changed the name of the school from Deer Creek School to Platte Canyon. He then went back to Bailey to attend school and graduated in 1953 from Platte Canyon High School in a class of three. In 1952 Clifford went to work for the Denver Water Board and worked there until he joined the U.S. Marine Corps in Denver in February, 1954. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, CA. After boot camp he was sent to Korea and then to Japan completing his tour of duty on Feb. 23, 1957 at Camp Pendleton, CA and left the service with an honorable discharge. After the service Clifford's oldest brother, Ben, helped him land a job at the Pinkerton Foundry in Lodi, CA. It was in Lodi that Clifford met his wife, Donna Jean Humphreys and they were married at the Valley Oaks Grange Hall in Galt, CA in the presence of over 300 guests. Five years later on July 21, 1962, Clifford and Donna had their marriage blessed at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Lodi, CA. A month later Clifford and Donna moved to Whittier, CA where Clifford began working for his brother, Don, as a carpenter. Sometime after this Clifford became a Journeyman Carpenter through the East Los Angeles Local Union #1497. On January 3, 1972, Clifford became a permanent employee for the county of Los Angeles at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center as a carpenter. Clifford has been a member of the Loyal Order of Moose in Whittier, CA since August of 1972 along with his wife. He became a member of Whittier Lodge No. 716 in August of 1972 and his wife a member of the Women's Auxiliary in November 1972. Besides their house in Whittier, Clifford and Donna own forty acres of desert property in Imperial County (40 miles southwest of Blythe, CA. They spend a lot of their spare time at this property camping and riding motorcycles with their three sons. Their family is a member of the Smoke Tree Valley Land Owners Association.