JoAnn Lampe was born at Nashville, Kansas, January 5, 1934, to Earnest
   and Hazel Lampe (Wilkins); she has one sister, Mary Lou (Lampe)(Kettering)
   Fetterman. She went to the grade school and Lutheran school at Nashville
   and to high school at Pratt High School, Pratt, Kansas, graduating in 1951.
     JoAnn married Alvin Pearce at Clayton, New Mexico, September 22, 1952. 
   They have seven children: Don, Judy, Kathy, Rob, Debra, Tammy and Pam. They
   have twenty grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. The grandchildren
   vary in age twenty-one (Mike, who is serving in the Marines at this time
   and is stationed in Hawaii) to two (our youngest, Felix).
     Alvin has worked for L&M Contractors for  thirty years. We have traveled
   with him to each construction site for several years, then settled in
   Hutchinson for about eight years. Then the family moved with Alvin again
   when several of the kids were going through teenage years at the same time.
     Once again they settled, this time in Pratt, where they are living today
   and hoping to retire in about two years.
                       
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 82 
  Submitted by: JoAnn Pearce