The Maries County Gazette
Vienna MO
February 7, 1996


Georgia Humphrey

Georgia Ellen Humphrey, 80, of Dixon was born in Henley, on February 21,
1915 the daughter of Joseph N. and Lena Nora Loveall Leek and passed
away in the St. Mary's Health Center in Jefferson City on Monday,
Jan. 29, 1996.  She was united in marriage to Henry Edward Humphrey on
March 4, 1933 in Vienna and unto this union four sons and two daughters
were born.  Survivors include her husband Ed of the home; three sons and
daughters-in-law, James and Pearl and Edward and Shirley of Dixon and
Jackie and Doris of Vienna; two daughters, Edna Hudspeth and Treva and her
husband Steve Brown of Dixon; 19 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren and
two special friends, Ethel Dake and Blanche Osbourn.  She was preceded
in death by her parents; one son Charles Dwayne Humphrey, six sisters,
Bessie Farrar, Virginia Jones, Josie Lawson, Ruby Duncan, Aliene Watson
and Florence Jenkins; one brother; Joseph Leek; two grandchildren Carolyn
and Gary and one son-in-law Leland Hudspeth.  She was a member of the
Burnett Church.  Funeral services were held in the Long Funeral Home
in Dixon on Wednesday.  Burial was in the Lawson Cemetery near Iberia.
Serving as pallbearers were Johnny Beal, Mark, Jeff, Arlis and Rusty
Humphrey and Jason Krull.  Honorary pallbearers were Mike Humphrey,
Steve Beal and Randall Humphrey.