Eileen Parker Kempf

Eileen Parker Kempf joined our Lord on Sunday, April 1, 2012. Loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and friend to many. Born November 1, 1924, in Ft. Worth, Texas, the daughter of John Parker and "Bridie" Phelan Parker, who came to the U.S. from Tipperary and Clonmel, Ireland, respectively. After high school she was honored as Miss Ft. Worth Centennial. After business college she became a stewardess for American Airlines where she met her husband John Frederick Kempf. They married in 1950, moved to Oklahoma City and later she became a legal secretary. Member of Christ The King Catholic Church since 1951. She is pre-deceased by her husband John. She is survived by her brother James "Jimmy" Parker of Ft. Worth and his children Linda, Margaret and Michael; her five "favorite" children and their families, John Frederick Kempf, Jr. and his wife Kathleen May Kempf of Oklahoma City, and their children Parker and his wife Krystal, Whitney and Martin; Mary Kempf Pinzon and her husband Dr. Pablo A. Pinzon of Oklahoma City, and their children Scott Fletcher, his wife Lauren and their daughter Laney Belle, Pablo Pinzon III and Juan Pinzon; Patrick Parker Kempf and his wife Meredith Collier Kempf of Bedford, TX, and daughter Lauren; daughter Kevin Elizabeth Kempf of San Francisco, CA, and her daughter Analisa Lonich; Michael Gunn Kempf and his wife Suzie Baker Kempf of San Antonio, TX, and their children Sam, Madeline and Grace; and a host of nieces and nephews and her many friends. Wake service, Tuesday, April 3, 7PM, and funeral mass Wednesday, April 4, 11AM (Fr. Rick Stansberry officiating) both at Christ The King Catholic Church, 8005 Dorset Dr., Oklahoma City, OK 73116. Interment will be in Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Christ The King School Scholarship Endowment or Christ The King St. Lawrence Ministry at the address above. Always kind, loving, thoughtful, graceful, elegant, prayerful and with a ready smile. Quick to help, slow to impose. She will be greatly missed.