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Embree Cemetery ~ Claude C. Dempsey ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Claude C. Dempsey
LAST NAME: Dempsey FIRST NAME: Claude MIDDLE NAME: C. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 27 Sept 1884 DIED: 22 Jan 1946 BURIED:  (Embree Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Salesman
BIRTH PLACE:  Rickreall, Polk Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1930 OR CENSUS - Claud [Claude] C. Dempsey, age 45, occupation cigar store clerk, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Linda, age 33, b. Oregon, along with Barbara, age 7, b. Oregon, and Wayne, age 6, b. Oregon.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (1946 Multnomah co) #313 Claude C. Dempsey, male, salesman, married, spouse Linda Dempsey (49y); b 27 Sept 1885, Rickreall, Ore; father James Dempsey; mother Alice Embree; d 22 Jan 1946, Portland VA Center, of Salem, age 60y 3m 25d; bur Rickreall, Ore [Embree cem]; informant Agnes B. Sellers, VA Center, Portland, Ore
OBITUARY: 
Claude Dempsey, 61, died Tuesday night [Jan 22] in the Veterans hospital in Portland, according to word received by his sisters, Miss Frances Dempsey and Mrs. John R. Sibley. He had been taken there in November following a stroke in his hotel in Salem on November 12. 
Claude was born in Polk county in September 1884, the son of James A. and Alice Dempsey, pioneer residents of the Rickreall community. His boyhood was spent in this vicinity. He served in the Unites States cavalry on the Mexican border in 1916 and went overseas during World War I where he served with the 157th infantry regiment. He had lived in Portland most of the time since returning from the service. 
Mr. Dempsey had been in failing health for the past three years. He spent most of last summer here, being forced to give up his work with the state liquor control commission by ill health, and was stationed as a road watchman for the forest closure at Black Rock. He had improved sufficiently last fall to resume his work and was employed in Salem at the time he suffered a stroke. 
Funeral arrangements are pending but it is thought graveside services will be held at the Dallas Odd Fellows cemetery. [Embree Cemetery] 
Claude is survived by his wife, a married daughter Barbara, who resides in New York City, and five sisters, Mrs. A.H. Boyd of Tacoma, Wash; Mrs. J.N. Hart and Mrs. Cora Cobb, both of Portland, and Miss Dempsey and Mrs. Sibley of Dallas.  
Dallas Itemizer-Observer 24 Jan 1946, 6:4
INSCRIPTION: 
Claude Dempsey
1884 - 1946
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Marker Photographs
OSBH DC (1946 Multnomah co) #313
1930 OR CENSUS (Multnomah Co., Portland, ED 108, sheet 3A)
DI-O 24 Jan 1946, 6:4
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