Lafe Emerson (1894-1975)

EMERSON, HOLLWELL, POTTS, MEYERS, OLSON

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 5/26/2011 at 10:23:05

Boone News Republican, Wed., Jan 8, 1975

Lafe Emerson, 80, died January 7 at the Boone County Hospital. He was born February 15, 1894 in Story County, son of Clinton and Sadie (Hollwell) Emerson. He married Bertha Potts on December 11, 1918, in Boone.

Emerson is a retired employee of the maintenance department at the Boone County Hospital.

He is preceded in death by his wife, parents, one sister and three brothers.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Edward H. (Rose) Meyers of Boone and Mrs. Sarah Olson of LaVerne, California; a son, James C. of Canoga Park, California; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Services will be January 9 at 2:30 p.m. at the Schroeder Funeral Home with the Rev. Roy E. Paslay, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in Linwood Park Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Schroeder Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Wednesday.