Dorothy Jean Kemble

1935 - 2009

Dorothy Jean Kemble, 74, died peacefully surrounded by her family Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.
Memorial service: 11 a.m. Friday in the sanctuary of Christ Chapel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home.
Pallbearers: John Snyder, Jeff Fraley, Billy Bob Watt, Clark Hunt, Daniel Hunt, Dick Griffith, Clark Kemble and Warren Shipman.
Memorials: Her memory may be honored with a gift to the Nancy Tilley Snyder Memorial Fund, 512 W. Fourth St., Fort Worth, Texas 76102, or M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Box 4486, Houston, Texas 77210-4486, please indicate Dorothy Kemble on the donation.
Dorothy was born April 25, 1935, in Casper, Wyo., to John Raymond and Gene Taylor Evans. She was the youngest of three children. Her family moved to Fort Worth when Dorothy was in the seventh grade and where she met Edward "Buzz" Kemble. She graduated from Arlington Heights High and the University of Texas. She married Buzz and they had four children: Scott, David, Lynne and Alicia.
Dorothy spent countless hours touching the lives of the women and children of Fort Worth by serving in many charitable organizations. She always made time for her family, whom she loved, and her friends, whom she adored. Her strength came from the Lord whom she met with first thing every morning in quiet devotion. She was a woman of integrity, grace and beauty.
Survivors: Her husband, Buzz Kemble; children, John Scott Kemble and wife, Kamille, David Ingrum Kemble, Lynne Kemble Maddox and husband, Duff, and Alicia Kemble Lesok and husband, Craig; grandchildren, John Scott and Ned James Kemble, Lauren Alicia and Claire Michelle Kemble, Kemble Kathleen and Payton Patricia Maddox, and Dorothy Jane Lesok; sister, Margaret Stewart and husband, Charles; and brother, Raymond Evans and wife, Corky.