Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Monday, December 15, 1975

Dent H. Temple services Tuesday

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home Chapel for Dent H. Temple, 60, of Rt. 3, Purvis who died Sunday morning at Forrest General Hospital after a brief illness.

Interment will be in Richburg Cemetery.

Mr. Temple was a member of Richburg Baptist Church and was employed as a county motor grader for Beat Four, Lamar County.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mellie Temple; two step-sons, James W. Lewis of Tucson, Ariz., and Charles R. Lewis of Hattiesburg; a step-daughter, Mrs. Verna Lee Sasser of Mt. Olive; 11 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.