Bertha Mae Kemph
Published 5:00 am Sunday, August 22, 2004
Services for Bertha Mae Kemph of Brookhaven are 2 p.m. Monday,Aug. 23, at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial in Pleasant HillBaptist Church Cemetery.
Visitation is Sunday from 5-10 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Kemph, 89, died Aug. 20, 2004, at Haven Hall Nursing Home.She was born in Lincoln County on May 31, 1915, to William Walkerand Flora Thames Walker.
She was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, DeweyKemph; two sisters; and six brothers.
Survivors are her son, George Kemph of Brookhaven; her brother,Earl Walker and his wife, Hilda, of McComb; her brother-in-law,Travis Jordan of Bogue Chitto; her sisters-in-law, Earline Walkerof Pearl and Veda Grace Walker of Ferriday, La.; two grandchildren,Nancy Shingler and her husband, Mike, of Pensacola, Fla., and BobbyKemph of Walker, La.; 12 great grandchildren; and one great-greatgrandchild.