MRS. HEMPHILL DIED SUNDAY

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at one o’clock at the First Congregational Church at 36th and Dewey in Omaha for Mrs. William F. Hemphill of Omaha.

Mrs. Hemphill 66 years of age, died Sunday at the Clarkson Hospital in Omaha.

She is survived by her husband Dr. W. F. Hemphill, Omaha; one son, Col. Robert Hemphill of Alexander, Va.; one daughter, Mrs. Janet Jenkins of Lincoln and seven grandchildren.

The Hemphill’s moved from Blair to Omaha in 1941.

#2-Published in the Enterprise May 12, 1960

RITES FOR MRS. W.F. HEMPHILL WERE WEDNESDAY

Funeral services were held Wednesday in Omaha for Mrs. W. F. Hemphill, former Blair resident and wife of Dr. W. F. Hemphill, Omaha dentist. She had died Sunday, May 8th, after more than a year of failing health.

Mrs. Hemphill, born Lois Ethel Taylor in Bartley, Nebraska, on February 16, 1894, was the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. William M. Taylor. Her father was one of the last of the Methodist circuit riders. Her early years were spent in Blue Springs, Nebraska, where her father held a pastorate, and she was graduated from the high school there in 1912.

Thereafter she taught the second grade at the Florence School in north Omaha until 1917. That year on June 20, she was married to Dr. W. H. Hemphill and they settled in Blair, where Dr. Hemphill established his dental practice.

Two children were born to them, a daughter, Janet, wife of Mr. E. F. Jenkins, Jr., member of the faculty, School of Music, University of Nebraska at Lincoln and son, Robert, an Air Force colonel stationed in Washington D.C.

During her years in Blair, Mrs. Hemphill was active in affairs of the Congregational Church, and was a member of the Monday Afternoon Club, the local chapters of the Delphian Society and of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a charter member of the Blair PEO organization, and served as Worthy Matron of the McKinley Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star in 1940.

In 1941 she and Dr. Hemphill moved their residence to Omaha, where she continued her work associated with the First Central Congregational Church. She was an active member of Chapter DH of the Omaha PEO, the Mu Sigma study group and of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Omaha District Dental Society.

Mrs. Hemphill was particularly well known among her friends and acquaintances for her poetry, which usually dealt with everyday subjects. Her poems were occasionally published in newspapers and periodicals, and broadcast. She compiled two volumes, “Crazy Quilt Patches,” and “Walls of Home.”

In addition to her husband and children, Mrs. Hemphill is survived by seven grandchildren and several brothers and 2 sisters.

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