John Thompson - K-Bar-C Hunting Ranch
John Thompson was born in St. Peter, MN. He lived in Davis City, IA from the age of 2 until he married Rosemary Swift of Grant City, MO in 1967. They moved to California where Rosemary completed graduate school, obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. They moved to Santa Barbara where they still reside and have a daughter who is a certified veterinary technician. She resides in Berthoud, CO. Some of his occupations included Data Process Manager and Manufacturing Control Analyst for Burroughs Corporation, before they became Unisys Corporation. He later became a licensed contractor and started a construction company with his brother-in-law. In 1997, he and his brother Arnold, Lee Neary, started the National Bird Dog Challenge Association (NBDCA) in Davis City, IA where they ran events on a 1000-acre farm that he had purchased for hunting and is now known as the K-BAR-C Hunting Ranch. He sold the NBDCA to Tournament Hunter in 2002, and he is now retired.
