Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, August 1, 1978

Richard E. Emmons

CENTER, Texas -- Richard Ervin Emmons, 68, died Sunday morning in a local hospital after a long illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. today in Bartle Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jack Thomas Forbus officiating. Burial will be in Old Center Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bertha Emmons; four sons, Billy Jean Emmons of Sherman, Floyd E. Emmons of Galena Park, Roger D. Emmons of Longview and James H. Emmons of Center; five daughters, Joyce Jackson, Beverly Dickinson, Gail Allums, all of Center, Dorothy Foubus of Sam Leon and Patsy Stroud of Grand Prairie; one brother, Virgil Emmons of Center; one sister, Lula Carlile of Sherman; 24 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.