The Stumpf family of Uniontown, Pennsylvania had 2 members who moved to the West Coast in the early part of the 1900's -- Craig Edgar Stumpf (Jimmy's father who moved to Lodi, California)and Eva Gwendoline Stumpf (Jimmy's aunt who married Henry George and settled in Spokane, Washington). They became intertwined with the Babinger family of Gowanda, New York, of whom Rachel Babinger married Craig Edgar Stumpf, and Josepine Babinger married Stanley Siegfried, with both families moving to Lodi, the Stumpfs in 1914 and the Siegfrieds in 1917 (a third Babinger sibling, Mary, also moved west, first to San Francisco and eventually to Lodi)! As a result, the Stumpf and Siegfried families of Lodi were very close. Because Craig Edgar Stumpf had helped his sister Eva Gwendoline Stumpf attend college, Eva felt an obligation to help Craig Edgar's son Jimmy after Craig Edgar died. As a result Eva and Jimmy remained close throughout their lives.
Surprisingly, despite the one-time presence of several members of the Stumpf family in the Lodi area, with the moving of Craig Edgar, Rachel, and Jim Craig Stumpf to Glendale, California in August of 1923, our family's Stumpf connection in Lodi ceased to exist. Rachel did eventually return to Lodi in about 1937 and died there in 1966. However, the Siegfried family of Lodi constitutes the only blood relations to the Stumpf offspring, a connection that with Mary (Siegfried) Yarborough's death in 2007 has for communication purposes disappeared. (Sorry, Cary, we gave you the impression that there were still lots of Stumpfs in Lodi, but the actual connection through the Babinger/Siegfried line is much more tenuous! Who knows, though, they may be happy to meet you anyway ...!)
Brief Narrative History of Stumpf Family
Brief Narrative History of Babinger Family
Brief Narrative History of George Family
Brief Narrative History of Siegfried Family