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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/>
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