July 11, 1923 – Nov. 11, 2013

MONTEREY — Memorial services for Rosemary Carolyn Conyer Kemp, 90, of Natchez, who died Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. today at her residence.

Services will be at 132 Ryan Road in Monterey under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home.

She was born on July 11, 1923, in Kalamazoo, Mich., to Haleen Mae Collins Conyer and Charles Benjamin Conyer.

She was married to Roy Wilfred Kemp on July 22, 1945. In 1952, they moved to Monterey, where she lived the remainder of her life.

Mrs. Kemp worked at Dale Insurance in Ferriday until she retired. She sang at many weddings and funerals and was well known for her musical talent. She was also known for her quilting and needlework skills. She was devoted to the Lord and was a faithful member of the Living Church of God.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; sister, Katherine Collins; son, Sandon Lee Kemp and grandson, Roy Wyatt Kemp.

Survivors include her brother, Charles C. Conyer and wife, Nancy, of Edwardsburg, Mich.; four children, Kathryn Waldorff and husband, Larry, of Blountstown, Fla., Gayle Dixon and husband, Grover, of Conroe, Texas; Ronald Wayne Kemp and wife, Bernice, of Telico Plains, Tenn. and Timothy Ryan Kemp and wife, Jayne, of Monterey; daughter-in-law, Peggy Kemp of Monterey; 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.