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==Family and death==
==Family and death==
Judge Humphries died of cancer in Alexandria at the age of eighty-six. In 1948, he married the former Ann Virginia Davis (May 24, 1925 – January 29, 2008), a sister of Wade Hall Davis, Sr. (1920–2003) of Alexandria.<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 25, 2010}}</ref> Wade Davis was the former director of the Louisiana State School for Spastic Children in Alexandria. The facility treated spasticity, a disorder of the [[central nervous system]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.nsula.edu/assets/CGHRC_Finding/doddb.htm|title=Bill Dodd Inventory|publisher=Library.nsula.edu|accessdate=March 25, 2010}}</ref> In ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', former Lieutenant Governor [[Bill Dodd]] placed on the last page of the book a picture of Judge Humphries, Wade Davis, state Senator Cecil Ray Blair (1916-2001), and [[U.S. Senator]] [[Russell Long]] posed in front of moss-laden trees.<ref>[[Bill Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', ([[Baton Rouge]]: Claitor's Publishing Company, 1991)</ref>
Judge Humphries died of cancer in Alexandria at the age of eighty-six. In 1948, he married the former Ann Virginia Davis (May 24, 1925 – January 29, 2008), a sister of Wade Hall Davis, Sr. (1920–2003) of Alexandria.<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 25, 2010}}</ref> Wade Davis was the former director of the Louisiana State School for Spastic Children in Alexandria. The facility treated spasticity, a disorder of the [[central nervous system]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.nsula.edu/assets/CGHRC_Finding/doddb.htm|title=Bill Dodd Inventory|publisher=Library.nsula.edu|accessdate=March 25, 2010}}</ref> In ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', former Lieutenant Governor [[Bill Dodd]] placed on the last page of the book a picture of Judge Humphries, Wade Davis, state Senator Cecil Ray Blair (1916-2001), and [[U.S. Senator]] [[Russell Long]] posed in front of moss-laden trees.<ref>[[Bill Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'', ([[Baton Rouge]]: Claitor's Publishing Company, 1991)</ref>
Humphries is survived by two sons, Guy Humphries, III (born 1950), and wife Dana, of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish and Richard Davis Humphries (born 1955) and wife Laura of[North Richland Hills in [[suburb]]an [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], and a daughter, Ann Humphries Jacob (born 1962) and husband, Tom Jacob, of West Palm Beach, [[Florida]]; five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two step-great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Services were held on March 27 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria. Humphries and his wife are interred at Alexandria Memorial Gardens near Woodworth.<ref name=obit/>
Humphries is survived by two sons, Guy Humphries, III (born 1950), and wife Dana, of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish and Richard Davis Humphries (born 1955) and wife Laura of[North Richland Hills in [[suburb]]an [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], and a daughter, Ann Humphries Jacob (born 1962) and husband, Tom Jacob, of West Palm Beach, [[Florida]]; five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two step-great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Services were held on March 27 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria. Humphries and his wife are interred at Alexandria Memorial Gardens near Woodworth.<ref name=obit/>