Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Mrs. Beatrice Hemphill, federal employee
By Sidney Cearnal
Mrs. Beatrice B. Hemphill, 76, of 1206 McCluer Road, a retired federal employee, died of cancer Tuesday at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center.
Services are 10 a.m. Friday at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl with burial in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Jackson.
Mrs. Hemphill, a Yazoo City native, retired from government work after 42 years of service. She worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration and for the Selective Service Adjudication Board. She was a 1931 graduate of Central High School. She moved to Jackson from Clinton several years ago and was a member of Asbury Congressional Methodist Church.
“She enjoyed her children and her grandchildren. Whatever their endeavors were, she was always behind the,” said her daughter, Bea Sarrett of Pearl. “She loved horses and rode for pleasure.”
“She had patience galore. Even when she was wheelchair-bound, she still went out to eat and to ball games,” her daughter said.
“She enjoyed life to the fullest. Her illness was an inconvenience, not a handicap. She was a cancer patient for so long but she had a good outlook on life,” Sarrett said.
Other survivors include: husband, William G. “Bilbo”; son, Harold Wayne Hemphill Sr. of Florence; brothers, Few White Ball of Yazoo City and William Ballard Ball Jr. of Jackson; sisters, Helen Lee of Jackson and Anna Pitzburgh of McComb; and eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Thursday, July 19, 1990
Clarion-Ledger Obituary Writer