Madie Theresa Humphrey

Madie Theresa Humphrey, age 98, of Williams, died Sunday, December 5, 2010 at her home.

A Graveside service will be at 1:00 p.m., Monday, December 13, 2010 at Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery in Hayward, California.

Memorial donations may be made to Seventh Day Adventist Community Services, 1360 NE 9th Street, Grants Pass, Oregon 97526

Madie Tuell was born March 27, 1912 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Samuel & Stella Tuell. The oldest girl in a family of six boys and three girls, she helped rear her family of eight siblings, including a half brother. Madie completed her elementary/secondary schooling in 1930 she then entered North Eastern Oklahoma State College, where she completed three years during the midst of the Great Depression. In 1934 she married Virgil Humphrey, a young man whom her parents helped raise during his teen years. Madie gave birth to her first son, Donald, in July 1935. Two years later, Madie, Virgil and Donald joined the great migration from Oklahoma to California where work could be found. In 1938 she gave birth to her second son, Robert, in Arvin, California. Throughout her married years, Madie helped support her family by providing sewing, childcare, substitute teaching, and other outside duties. After Virgil’s death in 1984, Madie lived with her sister, Rose, for six years, and then with her loving son, Robert, until her death on Sunday, December 5, 2010. She moved from Grants Pass, Oregon to Williams, Oregon in 1998. Madie was loved by all who knew her! She was known for her good works and loving care of others. Her proudest achievement was putting her sons through school through the Doctorate level and was eager to tell her friends that Donald is currently Professor of Physiology at Emory University School of Medicine, and Robert was past Chief Psychologist of the Kern County, California school system.

She was a member of Seventh-day Adventist Church at four locations, Dorcas Aide Society of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and several other charitable organizations.

Madie volunteered for Dorcas Aide Society, Hospitalized Veterans Aid, Adventist World Wide Hunger Aid Efforts, and Christian Children’s Fund.

Her hobbies included sewing, knitting, wildflower arrangement and photography, bringing love and cheer to hundreds of others.

Survivors include her two sons, Donald R. Humphrey of Atlanta, Georgia, and Robert Humphrey of Williams, Oregon; a sister Ada Rose Tuell of Stockton, California; two grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

Preceding her in death was her loving husband, Virgil Humphrey; five brothers, Edward Tuell, Samuel P. Tuell, Louis Tuell, Ray Tuell and Lenox Tuell; sister, Vera Tuell; and parents Samuel L. Tuell and Stella Tuell.