Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, April 2, 1981

BAILEY, MRS. MARY EMILY

Died Tuesday, March 31, 1981, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. She was 73 and a resident of Baton Rouge.

Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Religious services at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, the Rev. Huey Moak officiating. Burial at Greenoaks Memorial Park.

Survived by her husband, William M. Bailey Jr.; a daughter, Mrs. Willie Mae Wascome, Baton Rouge; a son, Donnie Bailey, Baton Rouge; two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle R. Chaney, Baton Rouge and Mrs. Edna R. Edwards, Pride; two brothers, Richard W. and Sam J. Robinson, both of Baton Rouge; three grandchildren, Mike Wascome, Donna and Christy Bailey.

She was a member of Foster Road Baptist Church and was a Sunday School teacher at Trinity Baptist Church for many years.