Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Saturday, March 11, 1967

JOHN P. EMMONS

FOREST -- Funeral services for John P. Emmons, 80, of Forest will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday from the Ott and Lee Funeral Home Chapel with burial to be in the Harperville Cemetery.

Mr. Emmons died Friday morning at the S. E. Lackey Hospital after an extended illness. He had been a resident of Forest for the past four years and a retired farmer from the Pea Ridge community.

Survivors include his wife, Buena Emmons of Forest; one son, Joseph P. Emmons of Jackson; two daughters, Mrs. Lawerence [sic Lawrence] R. Jones of Forest and Jackson, Mrs. R. N. Hayes of Jackson; one sister, Mrs. Jim Crane of Lake.