Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Wednesday, February 28, 1962

Mrs. Emmons Buried In Copiah

HAZLEHURST -- Mrs. Hestella Patterson Emmons, 87, of Hazlehurst died at the Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She had lived in Copiah County all her life.

Funeral services were held at the Shady Grove Baptist Church and interment was in the Harmony Cemetery.

Survivors are: two daughters, Mrs. John Watts, Vicksburg, Mrs. Charlie Cliburn, Hazlehurst; two sons, Shelby Young and Frank C. Emmons, Oma; two sisters, Mrs. Vick Setz, Greenville, Mrs. Nan DeLoach, Redfield, Ark.; two brothers Bob Patterson, Greenville and Ben Patterson, Brank City, Mo., five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.