Extracted from The Greenwood Commonwealth (Greenwood, MS)
Wednesday, December 30, 1964

Mr. Emmons Services Set For Thursday

Funeral services for James Everett Emmons Sr., will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Wilson and Knight Chapel with the Rev. John Lee, pastor of the First Christian Church officiating.

Mr. Emmons died Wednesday at the Greenwood-Leflore Hospital. He was 85.

Born April 19, 1879, in Carroll County, he was the son of the late J. G. and Milinda Elizabeth Aiken Emmons. He moved to Greenwood in 1900 after comp[l]eting a course at the Massey Business College in Birmingham.

Mr. Emmons was connected with the Greenwood Wholesale Grocery Co., from 1900 until his retirement in 1952. He married Mrs. Hettie Wall Harris in 1905. She died in 1948.

Mr. Emmons was an active member of the First Christian Church. In 1950 at the annual meeting of the United Christian Missionary Society he was elected a member of the Board of Managers, the governing body of the Christian Church in the United States and Canada.

He is survived by one daughter, Miss Hettie Wall Emmons of Greenwood; two sons, Charles M. Harris of Greenwood and James E. Emmons, Jr. of Tullahoma, Tenn.; two sisters, Mrs. Walter Jackson of Greenwood and Mrs. Monroe Moore of Horation, Ark.; four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

The family has requested that no flowers be sent and that any memorials to Mr. Emmons be made in the form of donations to the French Camp Academy or the donor's favorite charity.

Pallbearers are Bob White, David Brewer, Norman Brewer, Gerald Montgomery, R. L. Clarke Sr., W. D. Hand, J. V. Corbin, Darby Ross, R. T. Wade and Dr. R. E. Arline. Honorary pallbearers are friends of the family.