Matthew Christopher Dempsey

Matthew Christopher Dempsey, born June 15, 1938 in Dublin Ireland to parents Michael Dempsey and Elizabeth Karney Dempsey, He has 1 brother and 3 sisters in his Dempsey family. He soon left Ireland at a young age to pursue his education and career in nursing. He obtained his nursing degree in London England and then migrated to North America and made a home in Canada. He started his love for caring for the elderly in Canada when he had purchased a nursing home. He married and had 5 children while in Canada in the 1960's and 70's. He then migrated to the United States in the mid 1970's continuing his passion for elder nursing at Sky Ranch Nursing Home in South Fulton County and bought and ran that nursing home until the late 1980's. He had made Georgia his home and never left the nursing home business while he traveled the state to administer in other homes. Caring for others was his passion and the elders he thought of as an extension of his family. Matthew was predeceased in death by his mother Elizabeth and his father Michael. Also by his brother Michael Dempsey and 2 of his sons Brendon Dempsey and Sean Christopher Dempsey. He is survived by his 3 children, daughter; Celene Frances Dempsey Davenport, son; Michael Brent Dempsey and son; Mark Andrew Dempsey. He is also survived by his sisters Bernadette Dempsey Meyers of Riverdale Ga, Teresa Dempsey Kinahan and Elizabeth Dempsey Coleman of London, England. He was an amazing father to his children, an uncle loved by all of his nieces and nephews, a wonderful grandfather to his grandboys who love him dearly, and a loving brother to his sisters. He was loved by so many and will forever remain to be loved in all of our hearts. Pray for his peace and his family's as his end of life was March 1,2021. The end of a chapter, Not his book.