Amber Humphrey

Amber Ann Humphrey, 40, of Sulphur, died suddenly and unexpectedly at her residence on Monday April 22, 2019.

Amber was a life-long resident of Sulphur and very active in the community. She was a 1997 honor graduate of Sulphur High where she was active in the National Honor Society and French Club. She helped to organize the 20-year class reunion in 2017. Her extreme love of children led her to become a 2002 graduate of McNeese State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. While at McNeese, she was active in the Baptist Student Ministry. Amber took many mission trips and spent many summers away from home while serving at various summer camps around the country.

Amber was very active with her nephews in attending and supporting their sporting events and activities. She was like their second mother and was one of their biggest cheerleaders. She was the longtime office manager for Lake Area Office Products. Amber was very active in her community and her church. Throughout her younger years, she was very active in AWANA where she won several awards as a participant. She then became a leader where she loved helping her children learn about her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A member of First Baptist Church of Moss Bluff, Amber was a volunteer in the children’s ministry where she served as an elementary school Sunday School teacher and helped with the children’s choir and children’s musicals. She served in the nursery and toddler rooms where she enjoyed loving on babies and their families. Amber’s love of music started at an early age when she would sing with her parents and their quartet as they traveled. She participated in school and church musicals and sang at many friends’ weddings. She played in the handbell choir at two of the churches she attended, Fellowship Baptist Church in Sulphur and her current home church, where she also sang in the choir and praise team for several years. She also served on the board of FaithWalk ministries and worked several retreat weekends where she enjoyed loving on fellow believers in Christ.

Amber will be most remembered for her beautiful voice, big hugs and bright smile that lit up any room she was in. She was a bright shining light to all who knew her. She loved out loud and treated everyone she came in contact with as though they had been lifelong friends. She worshipped and praised her Lord with reckless abandon.

Preceding Amber in death are her maternal grandparents, Paul and Waneta Sandy Haga and paternal grandparents, John and Frances Rickstrew Humphrey; aunt, Margaret Bradley; uncles, Ronnie White and Chris Haga; and brother, Jeremy Humphrey. Those left to cherish her memory are her parents, Rick and Cathy Haga Humphrey, Sulphur; sister, Dawn Cole; nephews Ryan and Johnathan Cole; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and dear friends adopted as family.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 AM on Saturday April 27, 2019 at First Baptist Church of Moss Bluff, with a graveside service at 3:00 PM at Mimosa Pines South Cemetery in Carlyss. Visitation will be on Friday April 26, 2019 from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Johnson Funeral Home in Lake Charles.

The family requests that memorials be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Faithwalk of South Louisiana or to the Gideon’s.