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Melvin Russell Kemp Sr.
1935 - 2021
Melvin Russell Kemp Sr.
1935 - 2021
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BORN
1935
DIED
2021
Melvin Kemp Obituary
Knoxville - Melvin Russell Kemp Sr., (Buge), age 85 of Knoxville, TN departed peacefully from this life, Thursday, February 25, 2021 at NHC Farragut Rehabilitation Center. He was born September 30, 1935 and was a graduate of Austin High School class of 1954. He retired from 3 employers (Valley Fidelity Bank, TVA and Y-12 Oak Ridge).
Melvin was preceded in death by parents; Edward and Margaret Kemp of Knoxville, TN; his son Melvin Russell Kemp Jr of Columbus GA and four brothers and five sisters.
He is survived by and leaves to cherish his memory, a very special and devoted daughter Margaret (Earl) Steele of Knoxville, TN; Melba Tate of Knoxville, Lela Kemp of Lawrenceville, GA, Lisa Range of Loganville, GA and a devoted Son, Marvin Kemp of Knoxville, TN, several grand and great-grand children; devoted sister Lois Keith of Knoxville TN and Geneva Ware of Knoxville, TN and devoted friend, Jackie Lundy Bingham, a host of other family and friends too numerous to name.
There will be a Celebration of Life Service for immediate family only on Friday, March 5, 2021 at the Unity Mortuary Chapel at 12:00 Noon with Rev. Dr. Valentino McNeal officiating and Bishop Zach Flack Eulogist.
Mr. Kemp will lie-in-repose on Thursday, March 4, 2021 from 12:00 p.m.-5:00p.m at the Unity Mortuary Chapel and on Friday March 5, 2021 from 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the Unity Mortuary prior to the Service. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the family respectively asks that masks be worn and social distancing be practiced. Unity Mortuary is honored to serve the Kemp family. www.unitymortuary1979.com.
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Carrie L. Gordon
February 20, 2024
Remembering Melvin at this time. Heartwarming to read all the messages to the family. He was certainly a wonderful person.
Carrie L. Brown Gordon
February 20, 2023
Still remembering the family. Time seems to go so swiftly. I remember Melvin and all the family on Alvin Street in Park City. Many of my mother's family lived on Alvin and in the neighborhood. With prayer.
Ebony jone Agnew
March 19, 2021
You will be missed no more pain you are in god hands
Carrie Louise Gordon
March 13, 2021
To the family of Melvin, my deepest sympathy and prayers. I remember his parents and family from years ago.
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Herman Jackson
March 6, 2021
Melvin was my mother’s youngest brother who was kind and very jovial. I can remember him entering my grandmother’s house at 2345 Alvin in the Park City Community with his kind and loving personality. He would ask you many serious questions and then the joking would start. What a great time and what a great visit. During my college years during summer vacation, Uncle Melvin became my shepherd. He worked downtown Knoxville at the Tennessee Valley Bank handling official office business interfacing with other downtown businesses. A great deal of paper work transpire and transferred between the Bank of Knoxville, TVA, Home Federal Bank and other financial organizations in the downtown Knoxville area. Uncle Melvin spent his time training me to use the official office machines and the routines necessary to complete daily tasks. Carbon paper, typewriters, the Xerox 914 copying machine, COBOL, the typical PDP-1 computer system, which included a cathode ray tube graphic display, paper tape input/output which required only one operator user to carry out our daily business. Uncle Melvin was built like my grandfather. He was not physically tall but he was quite a tall man in wisdom and comradeship and I received lessons that were quite practical and far reaching. Prayers to my first cousins Melba Tate, Margaret (Hubert) Steele, Lela Kemp, Lisa Rainge; and Marvin Kemp.
Frank & Sharon Brown, Shamie, Ashley, Tiny, JuJu, JJ and the Booker Family
March 5, 2021
Marvin and Family, our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time. May GOD wrap his loving and comforting arms around you all and bring you peace.
A. Williams DuBose
March 5, 2021
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. God Bless
William & Evelyn E Keith
March 5, 2021
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Yvonne Webb
March 4, 2021
In loving memory of a wonderful Uncle. We will love you and miss you.Yvonne, Kesha Tiffanni Webb
The Newsome Family
March 4, 2021
To Lisa Rainge,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the entire Kemp family over the loss of your Father. The way you spoke highly of him left no doubt that he was truly loved by all. We know he will be truly missed but as you know, he has ascended into heaven where there is no more pain or suffering. We pray for your comfort and peace and will be here for you in this time of need in any way we can help.
The Newsome Family
Anthony & Paula
March 4, 2021
To the family of our beloved brother Kemp
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
In pray for the family during this time,
Love, Anthony & Paula
Liletta Coats and Family
March 4, 2021
Sending our condolences and prayers to the family.
Pamela (Littlejohn) Harshaw
March 4, 2021
Marvin, Lisa an Lela. May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Venus Styles
March 4, 2021
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Angela McNair
March 4, 2021
Marvin,
Sorry to hear of the passing of your father. May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Shirley and Johnny Lundy, Jr.
March 3, 2021
May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.
Cherry C. McClendon
March 3, 2021
Sorry for the family's loss. Melvin worked with me at the Tennessee Valley Authority also did Earl Steel. Sorry for the family's loss. Praying for comfort, healing & strength during this time one of grievance.
Jeff Smithers
March 3, 2021
I work with Melvin at Valley Bank. I recall him as being such a sweet man. Never heard a cross word from him. I was a young man then, such a positive experience to work with Melvin
Cathy Queener
March 3, 2021
Marvin
My condolences to you and your family in the loss of your father.
Keeping you in prayer.
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