Velma Lou Kemp

FORT WORTH -- On Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, just as the sun began to rise, Velma Lou Felts Kemp, 89, walked joyfully into the arms of her heavenly Father. Wearing her favorite pink, she ran to join her loving husband, parents and all her siblings.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday in Laurel Land Memorial Chapel. Interment: Laurel Land Memorial Park of Fort Worth. Visitation: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Velma was born in Nashville, Tenn., on June 5, 1926. At age 14, she met her beloved, Hollis Webb Kemp, who sold produce to her sister's family store from his market truck. In 1943, at age 17, she married while Webb was on Army leave. After World War II, they had three daughters in Nashville and two daughters in Fort Worth, where they stayed to raise their family. She worked hard to support herself from an early age and fulfilled her dream of attending beauty school. She owned and operated her own shop full time, Kemp's Coiffures, while raising her children and throughout the hardship of Webb's illness and death in 1990. She didn't officially retire until age 84. Velma continuously displayed a life of love and generosity to family and friends. She was adored and touched by all.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hollis Webb; parents, Beulah Floyd and Mack Dennis Felts; siblings, Billy, Eileen, Ruth (Crowder), June (Ralston), her twin, Thelma Sue, Claude, Eva (Duke) and Beatrice.

Survivors: Daughters, Barbara Brauer, Linda Kemp, Cathey Karnes (John), Debbie Hanvey (Michael) and Vicki Whorton; grandchildren, Greg Wardlaw (Rebecca), Sean Wardlaw (Debbie), Brandon Brauer, Beau Brauer, Ben Brauer (Jessie), Matthew Hanvey (Kristen), Celeste Hanvey, Bonnie Hanvey, Anthony Whorton and Sarah Whorton; great-grandchildren, Georgia and Adeline Hanvey and Audrey Wardlaw; and extended family all around the country.