DEMPSEY District # 78
(SE1/4NE1/4 10-11-25)
The first school was conducted in 1903 for one month. The building was 10 x 12 with 1 x 12s spaced 2 feet apart for the walls and not sealed. The floor was of sandy earth located on quarter mile west of the Dempsey Cemetery on the north side of the road. They kept warm by heating sand in a tin dish pan over a shinery fire. The next year a larger school building (22 x 24) was built and later this first school was moved to the Marion FRANKFORD homestead where it was used for a smokehouse and still stands in 1983. Pie suppers were held to raise funds for Christmas treats at this school. Discipline was very strict and fully supported by the parents.
Closing and transferring to Reydon came in the spring of 1937. For the years of 1919 to 1923 no records are available during this time. Dempsey consolidated with three other schools to create C-3.
TEACHERS
| BAILEY, Mildred | 1931-32 |
| BOURNS, W. Clayton | 1929 |
| CHAMPLAIN, Morine | 1927 |
| CLAY, Ray | 1930 |
| CROSS, Eula Wilson | 1933-34 |
| DODSON, Mrs. Noel | 1925,36 |
| GILLESPIE, Mrs. Bessie | 1926 |
| HUNT, Juanita Estes | 1935 |
| LOZER, Clara | 1918 |
| MOORE, Mildred | 1924 |
| SQUIRE, C. A. | 1916-17 |
| UNGER, Mildred | 1928 |
School Board
| CARTER, J. O. | 1923-26 |
| FETTY, Bert | 1934-36 |
| FRANKFORD, R. W. | 1934-36 |
| FRANKFORD, Wm. | 1923-24 |
| FRENCH, T. L. | 1927 |
| FRENCH, T. F. | 1925-26 |
| GILLILAND, Virgil | 1918 |
| LANER, R. D. | 1918 |
| LOWRANCE, Alice | 1929-33 |
| MARTIN, J. C. | 1927-33 |
| MARTIN, W. B. | 1916-18 |
| PARMAN, A. B. | 1935-36 |
| PARMAN, Julia | 1934 |
| PAYNE, Nesby | 1928-33 |
| SKIDGEL, Ira | 1923-24, 27-28 |