Obit: Dempsey, Orrin (1904 - 1965)

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Surnames: Dempsey, King, Forsyth

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/28/1965

Dempsey, Orrin (13 OCT 1904 - 23 JAN 1965)

Funeral services were held at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home for Orrin Dempsey, 60, who died early Saturday after suffering a heart attack.

Rev. Robert Goessling, pastor of the Congregational Church, Owen, officiated at the final rites conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home. Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Emil Hansen, Clarence Pyatt, Jame Crowley, Lawrence Clark, Roy Clark and Fred Hoeper.

Orrin Dempsey, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Dempsey, was born Oct. 13, 1904 at Rockford, Ill., and came in 1910 with his parents to Withee. Five years later the family moved to Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) and he has ever since been a resident of this community.

Years ago he first helped his parents in the operation of their livery business. Later he was employed by the John S. Owen Lumber Co., Master Package Corp. and the Post Co.

He never married.

Survivors include four brothers, Glen, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Robert, Chicago; Louis of Madison; Harry, Owen; a sister, Mrs. Gordon King, Chicago; and a half-sister, Mrs. Mabel Forsyth, Belvidere, Ill.