Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Sunday, November 26, 1961

W. I. EMMONS

PLEASANT HILL, Nov. 25 (Special) -- Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday for W. I. Emmons, 78, who died Friday in a Shreveport hospital after a brief illness.

The rites will be held in the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Cecil Salley officiating. Burial will be in Pleasent [sic Pleasant] Hill Cemetery under the direction of Drewett Funeral Home of Mansfield.

Survivors are his widow; two sons, Hudson Emmons of Pleasant Hill and William Emmons of Natchez, Miss.; two sisters, Mr. Delitha Hilgenfeld of Blanchard and Mrs. Jess[i]e Walker of Oak Grove; a brother, Nathan Emmons of Natchitoches; and two grandchildren.