Extracted from The Greenwood Commonwealth (Greenwood, MS)
Monday, December 19, 1977

Mrs. Ruth Staten

HOLCOMB -- Services for Mrs. Ruth Emmons Staten, 61, were held at 2 p.m. today at National Funeral Home in Grenada.

Mrs. Staten, wife of Lamar H. Staten, died Sunday at Grenada County Hospital.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, John P. Staten and Robert D. Staten, both of Holcomb; two brothers, Archie Emmons of Greenwood and Blanton Emmons of Bessemer, Ala.; and a sister, Mrs. Murray Whitten on Cascilla.

Burial was in Bethel Cemetery near Holcomb.