The daughter of Leslie Ray and Flossie Charlotte (Ade) Conklin, she was born on March 19, 1926, in Kilbourne, Ill. On April 12, 1946, she married Howard Samuel Emmons and he preceded her in death on Dec. 29, 2000.
A homemaker all her life, she was an active member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Forest Homes in Cottage Hills.
Surviving are a daughter, Ruth Beck of Cottage Hills; two sons, Dennis Emmons and wife, Brenda, of Alton and Randy Emmons and wife, Paula, of Dupo, Ill.; four grandchildren, Carl Beck III, Nancy Terpening, Chrissy England and Andrea Schaaf; five great-grandchildren, Kayla and Abigail Beck, D.J. Middleton, Eric Williams and Shelby England; five sisters, Evelyn Williamson of Wisconsin, Nina Patrick of Bath, Ill., Flo Hughes of Havana, Ill., Daisy Emmons of Alton and Patsy Kramer of Bloomington, Ill.; and two brothers, Lloyd Conklin and wife, Lora, of Havana, Ill., and Jimmy Conklin and wife, Donna, of Petersburg, Ill.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Blanche Wahlfeld and Winnie Conklin; and four brothers, Homer, Donald, Harold and Raymond Conklin.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Elias-Smith Funeral Home and Crematory in Bethalto. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the First Southern Baptist Church of Forest Homes in Cottage Hills with Pastor Shaun Kennedy officiating. Interment will be at Rose Lawn Memory Gardens in Bethalto.
Memorials may be given to the church. For more information visit the Everlasting Memorial Internet Web site at www.mem.com.
Obituary, The Telegraph, November 22, 2005.
The daughter of Leslie Ray and Flossie Charlotte (Ade) Conklin, she was born on March 19, 1926, in Kilbourne, Ill. On April 12, 1946, she married Howard Samuel Emmons and he preceded her in death on Dec. 29, 2000.
A homemaker all her life, she was an active member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Forest Homes in Cottage Hills.
Surviving are a daughter, Ruth Beck of Cottage Hills; two sons, Dennis Emmons and wife, Brenda, of Alton and Randy Emmons and wife, Paula, of Dupo, Ill.; four grandchildren, Carl Beck III, Nancy Terpening, Chrissy England and Andrea Schaaf; five great-grandchildren, Kayla and Abigail Beck, D.J. Middleton, Eric Williams and Shelby England; five sisters, Evelyn Williamson of Wisconsin, Nina Patrick of Bath, Ill., Flo Hughes of Havana, Ill., Daisy Emmons of Alton and Patsy Kramer of Bloomington, Ill.; and two brothers, Lloyd Conklin and wife, Lora, of Havana, Ill., and Jimmy Conklin and wife, Donna, of Petersburg, Ill.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Blanche Wahlfeld and Winnie Conklin; and four brothers, Homer, Donald, Harold and Raymond Conklin.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Elias-Smith Funeral Home and Crematory in Bethalto. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the First Southern Baptist Church of Forest Homes in Cottage Hills with Pastor Shaun Kennedy officiating. Interment will be at Rose Lawn Memory Gardens in Bethalto.
Memorials may be given to the church. For more information visit the Everlasting Memorial Internet Web site at www.mem.com.
Obituary, The Telegraph, November 22, 2005.
Family Members
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Blanche Margaret Conklin Wahlfeld
1910–1996
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Evelyn Mae Conklin Williamson
1911–2012
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Raymond Coridon Conklin
1913–1991
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Winifred Eleanor Conklin Conklin
1916–1975
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Lloyd Edward Conklin
1918–2007
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Nina Fae Conklin Patrick
1920–2010
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Floye Berneda "Flo" Conklin Hughes
1922–2006
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Homer J. Conklin
1923–1999
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Daisy Maxine Conklin Emmons
1925–2014
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Harold Alva Conklin
1927–1976
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Donald Wayne Conklin
1930–2000
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Patsy Darlene Conklin Kramer
1931–2016
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