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Dec 11, 2020 5:03 PM
Alice Louise Kempton, 84, formerly of Tekonsha, passed away on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at Birch Meadows AFC in Three Rivers.
A private family graveside service will be held at Riverside Cemetery in Tekonsha, with her son, Pastor Douglas Kempton, of Grace Community Church in Detroit, officiating. A public celebration of life will be held in the summer of 2021. The family is being served by Lighthouse Funeral & Cremation of Union City.
Alice was born March 12, 1936 in Battle Creek, Michigan to Clinton âMikeâ and Leora (Green) Seadorf. After graduating in 1953 from Vicksburg High School, she married Vernon Kempton on November 7, 1953 in Vicksburg. He survives. The couple made their home in the Tekonsha/Homer area until moving to South Florida from 1963-1974, at which time they returned to Tekonsha. Alice spent many years as a devoted mother and homemaker. She later worked as an optometristâs assistant in Deerfield, FL. Beginning in 1984, she ow