Bernice Ovon McDonald Hemphill celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends Sept. 17, 2022. After that milestone and two bone-fracturing falls, she passed away peacefully on Jan. 11, 2023.
She was laid to rest Jan. 16 beside her husband Lenon and near her parents and many other relatives in the Bateman Cemetery in Bastrop County, returning to the area of her beginning, going home.
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