Dixie Ruth Kempe

Dixie Ruth Kempe

• Father: William M. Kempe b. 17 March 1887, d. 17 February 1971
• Mother: Emily Honor McCracken b. 4 April 1894, d. 28 August 1981

• Dixie Ruth Kempe was born on 11 January 1913 in Texas.
• Joseph A. Jones and Josephine Bourke appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1225 Clinton Avenue. Other members of the household included Dixie Ruth Kempe, Melvin Dewey Jones, Dixie Mae Jones, Raymond Henry Jackson, George Richard Jackson, William Joseph McCracken, William M. Kempe, Emily Honor McCracken, William Dewey Kempe and Emily Angeline Smith. William Kempe and family also were enumerated in Wichita County, likely because the Tarrant enumeration occurred on 15 January and later, on 23 March, in Wichita County.
• William M. Kempe and Emily Honor McCracken appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Wichita County, Texas. Other members of the household included Dixie Ruth Kempe, William Dewey Kempe. The family also was enumerated with Emily's family in Fort Worth, likely because the Tarrant enumeration occurred on 15 January and later, on 23 March, in Wichita County.
• She married Lewis Clifford Carter, son of Frank Carter and Romie Taylor, circa 1929.
• Lewis Clifford Carter and Dixie Ruth Kempe appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1606 Harrington Avenue.
• Lewis Clifford Carter and Dixie Ruth Kempe appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 2412 Prospect.
• Dixie Ruth Kempe became a widow at the 15 August 1944 death of her husband Lewis Clifford Carter.
• The following appeared on 16 August 1944 in the Denton Record-Chronicle: (Fort Worth, Aug. 16) While two young lives clung to a partially submerged stump which had wrecked their outboard motorboat, their husbands drowned about midnight yesterday when they attempted to swim 100 years to a nearby island for aid.
       The drowning victims, whose bodies were recovered early today, were Lewis Carter, 39, packing plant employe, and Max Dyson, 24, garage operator. Their widows are sisters.
       Carter is a native of Weatherford.
• She married Albert Theodore Pulsifer, son of Charles W. Pulsifer.
• The following appeared on 27 December 1961 in the Corsicana Daily Sun: Seven-year-old William Dewey Kempe Jr., whose father said he was "old enough to look after himself" walked out of his house during an argument between his father and a woman and was crushed to death under the wheels of a car shortly before Monday midnight.
       The accident came at the end of a Christmas night in which the motherless boy had been left with two younger children for several hours while his father partied at a beer tavern.
       The driver of the car, John Tonetti, 19, said the boy darted in front of the auto.
       The father William Dewey Kempe Sr., said he and his girl friend, Mrs. Maxine Harris, 28, were involved in a heated argument when the boy walked out of the room.
       Kempe, 46, a construction foreman, said he was not disturbed when his son left saying:  "He does it all the time. He goes outside late at night to play."
       Kempe, his girl friend and her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Foster, spent about three hours Christmas night drinking and dancing.
       Young Dewey was left at home in charge of the Fosters' children, 6 and 3.
       Asked if he thought Dewey was old enough to be in charge of the younger children, the father replied: "Why not, he's old enough to look after himself."
       Dewey lives with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Pulsifer, during school months. He had gone to his father's home Christmas Eve to spend the holiday with his parent. His mother died when he was an infant. During the summer he lives with his father.
       Peace Justice Jim Boorman ruled the death as accidental. 
• The following appeared on 15 April 1971 in The San Saba News & Star: (Warranty Deeds) Albert T. Pulsifer and wife, Dixie R. Pulsifer, to Mike M. Martinez and wife, Audrey Faye Martinez, that certain lot, tract or parcel of land being Block No. 52 of Old Town Division of San Saba.
• Dixie Ruth Kempe became a widow at the 14 July 1975 death of her husband Albert Theodore Pulsifer.
• The following appeared on 16 October 1975 in The San Saba News & Star: Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary upon the Estate of Albert T. Pulsifer, Deceased, were issued to Dixie Ruth Pulsifer, as Independent Executrix. . . .
• Dixie Ruth Kempe died on 2 January 1991 at age 77 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
• She was interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 4 January 1991 in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Dixie R. Pulsifer, a homemaker, died Wednesday at her Fort Worth home. She was 77.
       Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
       Mount Olivet Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
       Mrs. Pulsifer was a lifelong resident of Fort Worth. She was a member of Rosen Heights Church of Christ.
       Survivors: Son, Jimmy Pulsifer of Palmyra, Mo; daughter, Mary Ruth Allen of Warren, Ore; two brothers, William Dewey Kempe of Azle and Frank Kempe of Arlington; sister, Esther Perry of Fort Worth; and one grandchild.

• Last Edited: 30 Sep 2015