Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, December 30, 1940

ELLA EMMONS' FINAL RITES HELD SUNDAY

Joint Services Held for Local Woman and Her Grandmother

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella V. Emmons, 27, stenographer for Frost Lumber Industries, Inc., who died Saturday morning in a Jasper, La., [sic Tex.], hospital following complications from pneumonia, were held yesterday at the Jasper First Methodist church.

Mrs. Emmons had gone to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives in Jasper. She lapsed into unconsciousness Tuesday night and never regained consciousness before her death.

Final rites for Mrs. Emmons were held jointly with funeral services for her grandmother, Mrs. Emma Lou Lanier, 78, who died Friday afternoon following a long illness.

Mrs. Emmons' husband, George Henry Emmons, was killed in an automobile accident near Houston, Texas in May, 1938, shortly after their marriage. She had been employed here for more than a year and a half.

The young woman was a graduate of Jasper high school. She attended Southwestern university and was graduated from Texas university, where she was a member of Phi Mu sorority. Mrs. Emmons taught English at Jasper high school for three years and completed a business course before accepting her Shreveport position.

She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lanier, of Jasper, and a sister, Mrs. Duval Futch, of Port Arthur. Both Mrs. Emmons and her grandmother were buried in the Jasper cemetery.