Embree Cemetery ~ Fannie Dempsey ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Dempsey, Fannie
LAST: Dempsey FIRST: Fannie MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 19 July 1875 DIED: 23 Dec 1962 BURIED: 27 Dec 1962 (Embree Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Bookeeper
BIRTH PLACE:  Rickreall, Polk Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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OBITUARY: 
Miss Fannie Dempsey, 87, died December 23 in a Salem hospital. She had been in ill health for a number of years. Miss Dempsey was born at Rickreall July 19, 1875, daughter of James and Alice Embree Dempsey. Her mother was a daughter of early Polk county pioneers and Miss Dempsey had spent her entire life in the community. 
Prior to her retirement she was bookkeeper in Crider’s Store for many years. She was one of the oldest members of the Dallas Methodist church and was a member and past president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. 
Only one member of the original family still survives, a sister, Mrs. John E. (Lulu) Sibley of Dallas. Surviving nieces and nephews who have been raised in the Dallas area include Mrs. Catherine Callaway, Arlington, Va.; James D. Allgood, Dallas; John Robert Allgood, Vallejo, Calif.; Eugene Morrison, Seattle and Mrs. Helen Morrison Petre, Salem. Services will be Thursday (today) at 2:30 p.m. at Bollman Funeral Chapel with burial in the Embree family cemetery east of Dallas. Lloyd Rice of Salem, an old friend of the family, will officiate. 
Dallas Itemizer-Observer 27 Dec 1962, 2:5
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Fannie Dempsey
1875 - 1962
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
OSBH DC (Marion County 1962) #16254
Saucy Survey & Photographs
DI-O 27 Dec 1962, 2:5
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