Marvel Mae Breeden was born December 22, 1914, to Ezra and Ina Breeden at Tryon, Oklahoma, and grew up in that community.

She was married to Elzie Hemphill on October 8, 1932.

Marvel was saved at an early age and she and Elzie enjoyed a good Christian home forty three years, serving in a little Pilgrim Holiness Mission in Tryon, Oklahoma in the late thirties, then a number of years in the Free Methodist Church. To this union were born three children, two boys, Elmer and Clarence and a baby girl, Barbara Joan who died in infancy.

She and Elzie lived on a farm north of Tryon for fifteen years, and then in the fall of 1947 they had a farm sale and moved to Perkins, Oklahoma, to the Free Methodist Campground, where they lived until they built a new home on an acreage adjoining Perkins on the northwest. On July 4, 1953, they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she has resided since.

Marvel was preceded in death by her parents, Ezra and Ina; her brother, Theran; her husband, Elzie in 1975 and her son, Clarence in 1993.

She is survived by her son, Elmer Hemphill and wife Audrey, of Tulsa; two daughters in-law Shirley Knight and Charlene Hemphill, of Tulsa; five grandchildren: Jim and Debbie Hemphill; John and Sharon Hemphill; Linda and Scott Harris, of Tulsa; Rhonda Hunt of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Teresa and Jimmie Smith of Lexington, South Carolina; and thirteen great-grandchildren: Jamie, Kristin, Katie, Jacqueline, Scott, Luke, David, Mark, Rodney, Gunner, Allie, Faith Ann and Jessie; all of whom she loved dearly.