Marguerite and Delmer O. Emmons were married on 29 Dec 1897 in Columbiana County, Ohio by Marguerite's father, Rev. Aaron Shively.
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) 22 May 1952, Thu, Page 48
Death Takes Mrs. Emmons, Ex-Reporter
Mrs. Marguerite O. Emmons, 73, veteran Akron district newspaperwoman, died Wednesday at City Hospital after a three-week illness. She made her home at 632 E. Market st.
Born in [sic, near] Bayard, Mrs. Emmons showed an early interest in journalism by editing the school paper and writing poetry and stories. Her career began officially after marriage when the editor of The Minerva News assigned her to cover a funeral.
After two years as a reporter there, she quit to take a job as Minerva correspondent for the Canton Repository—a position she held for six years.
Mrs. Emmons had made her home in Akron for the past 21 years. In recent years she did free-lance writing.
An early member of the Ohio Newspaperwomen's Association, she was a member of the High St. Church of Christ, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the McGuffey Society.
She leaves her husband, D. O.; a son, Karl N. of Lorraine; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hupp of North Canton, and two grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kesler Funeral Home. Burial will be in Moultrie Chapel. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) 22 May 1952, Thu, Page 48
Death Takes Mrs. Emmons, Ex-Reporter
Mrs. Marguerite O. Emmons, 73, veteran Akron district newspaperwoman, died Wednesday at City Hospital after a three-week illness. She made her home at 632 E. Market st.
Born in [sic, near] Bayard, Mrs. Emmons showed an early interest in journalism by editing the school paper and writing poetry and stories. Her career began officially after marriage when the editor of The Minerva News assigned her to cover a funeral.
After two years as a reporter there, she quit to take a job as Minerva correspondent for the Canton Repository—a position she held for six years.
Mrs. Emmons had made her home in Akron for the past 21 years. In recent years she did free-lance writing.
An early member of the Ohio Newspaperwomen's Association, she was a member of the High St. Church of Christ, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the McGuffey Society.
She leaves her husband, D. O.; a son, Karl N. of Lorraine; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hupp of North Canton, and two grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kesler Funeral Home. Burial will be in Moultrie Chapel. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
Marguerite and Delmer O. Emmons were married on 29 Dec 1897 in Columbiana County, Ohio by Marguerite's father, Rev. Aaron Shively.
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) 22 May 1952, Thu, Page 48
Death Takes Mrs. Emmons, Ex-Reporter
Mrs. Marguerite O. Emmons, 73, veteran Akron district newspaperwoman, died Wednesday at City Hospital after a three-week illness. She made her home at 632 E. Market st.
Born in [sic, near] Bayard, Mrs. Emmons showed an early interest in journalism by editing the school paper and writing poetry and stories. Her career began officially after marriage when the editor of The Minerva News assigned her to cover a funeral.
After two years as a reporter there, she quit to take a job as Minerva correspondent for the Canton Repository—a position she held for six years.
Mrs. Emmons had made her home in Akron for the past 21 years. In recent years she did free-lance writing.
An early member of the Ohio Newspaperwomen's Association, she was a member of the High St. Church of Christ, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the McGuffey Society.
She leaves her husband, D. O.; a son, Karl N. of Lorraine; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hupp of North Canton, and two grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kesler Funeral Home. Burial will be in Moultrie Chapel. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) 22 May 1952, Thu, Page 48
Death Takes Mrs. Emmons, Ex-Reporter
Mrs. Marguerite O. Emmons, 73, veteran Akron district newspaperwoman, died Wednesday at City Hospital after a three-week illness. She made her home at 632 E. Market st.
Born in [sic, near] Bayard, Mrs. Emmons showed an early interest in journalism by editing the school paper and writing poetry and stories. Her career began officially after marriage when the editor of The Minerva News assigned her to cover a funeral.
After two years as a reporter there, she quit to take a job as Minerva correspondent for the Canton Repository—a position she held for six years.
Mrs. Emmons had made her home in Akron for the past 21 years. In recent years she did free-lance writing.
An early member of the Ohio Newspaperwomen's Association, she was a member of the High St. Church of Christ, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the McGuffey Society.
She leaves her husband, D. O.; a son, Karl N. of Lorraine; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Hupp of North Canton, and two grandchildren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kesler Funeral Home. Burial will be in Moultrie Chapel. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
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