TOM DEMPSEY
cir 1879 - Nov. 3, 1947
cir 1879 - Nov. 3, 1947
TOM DEMPSEY
DIES AFTER
SHORT ILLNESS
Services will be held at 10 a. m. today in the Stockdale Memorial Funeral Home for Tom Dempsey, nationally known authority on pure-bred Jersey cattle, who died Monday night at Grant Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home on Sunday. He was 68 and had been ill for several years.
Since 1910, he had been working with Jersey cattle and he has been in semi-retirement since 1937.
Mr. Dempsey had been sales manager for some of the most prominent cattle breeders in America and Canada, including J. S. Ellsworth, T. S. Cooper & Sons, W. R. Spann and B. H. Bull.
A prominent cattle judge in state fairs, he had been a livestock judge at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915.
A native of Ironton, Mr. Dempsey lived most of his life in Westerville. He resided at __00 Westerville Rd.
HONORED AT OTTERBEIN
He attended Otterbein college and was a member of that school's first football team. Last _______, he and _______________ members of that first team were honored at the Otterbein centennial celebration.
Long an active sportsman, he was a member of the Wyandot Country Club and was manager of the club in 1934, 1935 and 1936.
He was a member of the Ohio and American Jersey Cattle clubs; the Columbus Athletic Club, Scottish Rite, Shrine and the Presbyterian church.
He leaves four sisters, Mrs. C. F. Eddington, at home; Mrs. L. A. Siebert, Teaneck, N.J.; Mrs. L. W. Curl, Birmingham, Ala.; and Mrs. T. H. Lecott, New Orleans, La. His wife, Mrs. Ursula Dempsey, died last year.
Public Opinion - November 6, 1947
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