Cindy and I are very sad about the passing of Gene Hemphill. He was a great man who smiled a lot and always wanted to help anyone. He was also a very good friend. I don’t know how many hours or days we worked together, especially some unique projects like a trip to Jay Leno’s garage where we ate pizza with him or starting a Celebrity Tractor Race in Nashville during the CMA summer Fan Fair. We liked a lot of things in common like a good beer or maybe something stronger, while we talked for hours some times. We worked together with people like Michael Peterson and Chuck Leavell. And from a media perspective he helped so many over the years for the New Holland Farm Progress Show media tent to sponsored media room at Commodity Classic and more. I personally think it was genius since he had all these media folks interacting with him and the New Holland logo showed up on a lot of photos and videos.
Oh Lord, grant eternal rest to Gene who is no longer with us. Shine your perpetual light over his soul and to rise to you.
The obituary can be found here.
Cindy helped find some photos of Gene. I’m sure there are more and we knew him before we started taking photos. But there are some good memories in these pictures including many in the industry with Gene.
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Chuck and Cindy, thank you so much for sharing your memories of Gene, and what a treasure the album of photos is. Thank you. I was lucky to have Gene as a client and a friend, and I agree that his sponsorship of media tents and rooms was a smart move! He will be missed by many.
Great photos of Gene Hemphill. He was unique, well liked and an all around nice guy. He was the best boss to work with. I worked with Gene at Ford New Holland for 5 years. I have so many fond memories and many funny ones too of Gene. He became my dear friend rather than a boss. What a great loss. My heart goes out to his dear family. Hopefully wonderful memories of this great guy will help the family through this difficult time.