Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, April 19, 1988

Rev. Grayson Emmons

SHREVEPORT - Services for Rev. Grayson Emmons, 79, of Shreveport, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday April 19 at the Southern Funeral Home Chapel in Winnfield, La. The Rev. Fisk Ray will officiate. Burial will be at Sikes Cemetery in Sikes, La.

Rev. Emmons died at 10:40 p.m. Sunday April 17, 1988, at Willils-Knighton [sic Willis-Knighton] Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was a native of Sikes, La. He was a retired Baptist minister and had pastored churches in Winn and Jackson Parishes. He w[a]s a member of the Willow Point Baptist Church in Shreveport, where he taught Sunday school.

He is survived by his wife, Elva Parker Emmons of Shreveport; three sisters, Ava Parker of Winnfield, La., Bertie White of Lake Charlees [sic Lake Charles], La.; two brothers, Ruel Emmons of Sikes, La. and Roy Emmons of Lake Charles, La.