Matilda Hastings Kemp's Obituary
Matilda Myer Hastings Kemp, 89, passed away quietly on Saturday evening November 17,2007 at Life Care at Lofland Park in Seaford, Delaware.
Born on a farm near Bridgeville to Edwin Saxe and Lorraine (nee Marvil) Myer on May 1,1918. She was one of 13 siblings. She loved her large family and was a proud member of the renowned Myer harness racing clan. After her marriage at age 20 to Robert Clinton Hastings she moved to a farm near Dublin Hill where she resided until failing health necessitated her residence at Life Care.
After the death of her first husband she became a secretary at Bridgeville State Police Troop #5, where she remained for 27 years until her retirement in 1983. For most of those years she was the only secretary at Troop #5 and took pride in trying to keep "the Boys" in line.
She is survived by her daughter Jean Hastings Genster of Schaumburg, IL; three grandchildren, Patricia Genster, Mary Beth Scherer and Robert Genster Jr.; and six great-grandchildren, Tyler and Annie Scherer, Sierra Genster-Rowe and Makaya, Haley and Ian Genster. She is also survived by her sister Lilias Richards of Bridgeville and her brother Paul Myer of Delmar and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Robert Clinton Hastings, her second husband Charles S. Kemp and 10 siblings, Edwin Jr., James, William, Ellis, Robert, Francis, Alan, Ralph and Dorothy Myer and Ester Meredith.
Services will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 2 PM at Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Hardesty Chapel, 202 Laws Street, Bridgeville where friends may call one hour prior to the services. Interment will be at Bridgeville Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 100 West 10th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 or the American Heart Association, 1151 Walker Road, Suite 202, Dover, DE 19901.
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