Sylvia Gail Kemp
October 16, 1949 — February 4, 2020

Sylvia Gail Kemp has gone to fly with the angels. She was 70 years old – born in Walnut Grove, Mississippi to Nathaniel and Evolene Kemp and passed away suddenly on February 4, 2020.

She and her family moved out to Humboldt County to Shively when she was 2 years old and lived with the Jones family there until they got a home in Pepperwood. She spent many a day playing with the kids there. She attended Rohnerville Elementary School, getting picked up in Scotia and taking the bus into Fortuna. She then attended Fortuna High School and graduated from there in 1968. Shortly after she met and married John Hooper and had a daughter, Julie.

However, shortly they divorced and she met Gary Crowl and they had a son, Rocky. She lived in and around Fortuna her whole life, and resided in Rio Dell upon her death with her boyfriend and schoolmate Dave Wall for the past 19 years. Most of all she was a mother loved her children and many friends she touched along her path in life.

We will miss you “Mal-ma,” as she liked me to call her.

She is preceded in death by her father Nathaniel Kemp, mother Evolene Kemp (Finklea), brothers Mack Kemp, Joe Kemp and sister Patrica Kemp (Copeland). She is survived by her loving and dear friend Dave Wall, her daughter Julie Ann Hooper and son Rocky Crowl and sister Yvette Kemp (Oscar). Also many family and friends, too numerous to mention. I would like to give special thanks to Dave Wall for the abundance of special care and love for her up to her last days, and Jana Russell for her caring and support during this hard time.

There will be a celebration of life and potluck at the Fortuna Community Services Building at 2331 Rohnerville Road from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. on March 15, 2020. Bring your favorite dish an some memories to share.

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