Funeral services for Jim Hartford Hemphill, 61, Dickens county farmer who died May 30, were held at 5 p.m., June 1, in the Dickens Church of Christ.
C.V. Allen conducted the services, and interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
Hemphill suffered a heart attack at his home in the Highway community. He was born Nov. 4, 1890, in Red Rock, Texas. Following his marriage to Edna Davis at Brady in 1911, the couple came to Dickens county in 1918.
Pall bearers were Henry Palmer, Oscar Kelley, Johnnie Koonsman, Raymond Powell, Earl Thomason and Cecil Estep.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Hemphill, three sons, Billy Jack and Tommie of Matador, and J. E. of Spur; five daughters, Mrs. Ila Daniel, Fort Worth; Mrs. Elva Clay, Dumont; Mrs. Opal Iovern, Hialeah, Florida; Mrs. Lois Garrett, El Paso, and Mrs. Glyn Smith, Monahans.
Two sisters, Mrs. Jack Stinson and Mrs. Jack Beavers, both of Paducah, also survive, and 15 grand children and one great grandchild.
Chandler Funreal home directed all arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, June, 1951
Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Hemphill, a Dickens County resident since 1918, were conducted Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. in the Northside Church of Christ in Dickens. Wayne Daniell of Amarillo officiated.
Burial was in Dickens Cemetery.
Mrs. Hemphill, 79, was the mother of Bill Hemphill of Crosbyton.
She was claimed by death Oct. 28, in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital. She had been a resident of M-D Nursing Home in Spur for the past few years.
Survivors include three sons, Bill Hemphill of Crosbyton, J.E. Hemphill of Windthorst and Tommy Hemphill of Mesquite; four daughters, Mrs. Ila Daniell of Fort Worth, Mrs. Elva Clay of Dickens, Mrs. Glyn Smith of Monahans and Mrs. Lois Garrett of Mulberry, Ark.; two brothers; one sister; 33 grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
©Crosbyton Review, November 8, 1973
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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