Extracted from The Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Wednesday, July 27, 1983

Mrs. DeMaurice Emmons Smith

Funeral services for Mrs. DeMaurice Emmons Smith, 61, of Monroe, La. were held at 2 p.m. Monday July 25, 1983 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. William Smith, pastor of the Lakeshore Baptist Church in Monroe La. officiating. Burial was in Rehobeth Cemetery.

Mrs. Smith died Friday night, July 22, 1983, in Glenwood Medical Center in West Monroe, La. She was born June 24, 1922 in Plain Dealing, La. She had been a resident of Monroe for 37 years, moving to Monroe from Shreveport, La. Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and a member of the Lakeshore Baptist Church in Monroe, La.

She is survived by her husband, Mr. Marcus Earl Smith of Monroe, La.; one sister, Mrs. W. C. (Doris) Hebert of Carthage; two brothers, Phillip B. Emmons of Shreveport La. and Glyn H. Emmons of Bossier City, La.