Banker Demps

DEMPS, Mr. Banker Babatunde "Boonie" - Age 37, passed away Friday, May 18, 2012 at Hurley Medical Center. Family hour 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 26, 2012 at Greater Galilee Baptist Church, 4418 Industrial Ave., with funeral service commencing at 11 a.m. Pastor Latrelle Holmes, Sr., officiating. Interment Sunset Hills Cemetery, G-4413 Flushing Rd. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Mr. Demps will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., and may be viewed from 1-8 p.m. Friday. Mr. Banker Babatunde Demps was born September 23, 1974 to Willie and Sandra Demps. He was the youngest of three children. Banker joined Galilee Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Boyd, who later baptized him at an early age. He then became a member of Greater Galilee Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Latrelle Holmes in 2009. Banker worked with the Youth Group at Galilee, but had a special dream of starting a youth basketball team at church. His health kept him from accomplishing his dream. Banker was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 12, but during high school played sports at Northwestern High School and later graduated from Hamady High School. Banker also attended Mott Community College and began working as a Teacher’s Aide for the handicapped in the Flint Community Schools. He loved life, family and friends. Banker also had a love for sports and all outdoor activities. He had a happy carefree spirit and kept a smile on his face. You couldn’t be around Banker and be sad. He always made you laugh, yet he had a firm belief in God. Although Banker’s health issues affected his life at an early age, it didn’t stop him from living and enjoying life. Mr. Banker B. Demps leaves to cherish his memory: the love of his life, whom he married March 11, 2010, wife, LaShunda Vance-Demps; 3 daughters, Taijae Yettitunde, Tasecia and Tatyana; 3 sons, Jacques, Banker, Jr. and Jamile; parents, Willie and Sandra Demps; grandmother, Oreatha Demps; 2 sisters, April (Lance) Rison and Knarie Demps; 2 brothers, Courtney Lewis, Sr. and Xavier Demps; mother and father-in-law, Lenell, Sr. (Renita) Vance; 4 sisters-in-law; 3 brothers-in-law; a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, other relatives and friends including special friends, Kenneth Woodson, Mark Carter, Ernest Brooks, Shiraz Copeland, Damond McEllery and Derrick Cole. Mr. Demps was preceded in death by his grandparents, Jerome and Alice Oliver and Napoleon Demps; and uncles, James Demps, Ozell Plummer Demps and Jerry Oliver. The family would like to express special thanks to Pastor Latrelle Holmes and the Greater Galilee Baptist Church family, Davita Dialysis, Paramedics of Swartz Creek, Brick Street, Hurley Medical Center 7East, Emergency and Lab.

Banker Demps

September 23, 1974 - May 18, 2012