Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Monday, February 20, 1989

Marcella P. Dempsey

WINNFIELD -- Services for Marcella Porter Dempsey will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Old Union Baptist Church with the Rev. William Gates and Rayford Higgs officiating. Burial will be in Old Union Cemetery under direction of Southern.

Mrs. Dempsey, 63, of Joyce died at 12:35 p.m. Sunday in Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport.

She was a member of Old Union Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Lewis Dempsey Sr. of Joyce; four sons, Michael Baxter Dempsey and Phad P. Dempsey, both of Atlanta, Lewis E. Dempsey Jr. and Thomas T. Dempsey, both of Joyce; three daughters, Mavis David Sr. of New Iberia, Dochia Speer of Denham Springs, and Shahn S. Dempsey of Joyce; five sisters, Llewyn Creel and Faye Parker, both of Joyce, Rosehannah Motsinger of Winston-Salem, N.C., Raye Turner of Shreveport and Mary D. Gerace of Glendora, Calif.; and three grandchildren.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. today until time of services Tuesday in the church.