Obituaries: Earl J. Hemphill, 1954, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 30, 1954 Winnfield News-American


Funeral services for Earl J. Hemphill, age 40, who died Monday morning about
8:30 o'clock at the First Baptist Church.  Rev. W. L. Holcomb, pastor,
conducted the services followed by interment in the Winnfield Cemetery under
direction of Hixson's Funeral Home.

The deceased suffered a heart attack soon after opening Tomlinson's Jewelry
storer earlier Monday morning.  The alarm of his condition was given by Wiley
Williams, who reportedly was in the store talking to him at the time.  He
was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital, where he died a few minutes
later.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Hemphill, two small children, Elizabeth
Ann and Douglas Elton; father, W. G. Hemphill, Georgetown; five brothers, Alex
and Howard Hemphill, Georgetown; James T. and Herman G. Hemphill, Winnfield,
and Pleas Hemphill, Georgetown; two sisters, Mrs. Frances McCartney, Trout,
and Mrs. Beulah Mae Wright, Tullos.

Serving as pallbearers were Robert Guin, Tommy Thomas R. T. Tucker, A.
Buggington, Douglas Jordan, and Troy Kyson.