Emma Shuttlecock Longman 1886-1951

LONGMAN, SHUTTLEWORTH, WILSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/30/2010 at 00:19:58

Mrs. Longman Succumbs to Heart Attack

Mrs. Emma Longman, 65, died at 7 p.m. yesterday of a heart attack shortly after she had walked to the home of a friend, Mrs. Emma Paulson. She died at the Paulson home.

Mrs. Longman was born July 15, 1886, in Belle Plain, Hamilton, Ill., a daughter of James and Sarah Shuttleworth. She was baptized in Methodist church in Forrest, Ill. She lived in various places in Illinois until she was nine years old, when her family moved to Manson where they lived for six years and then to a farm there where she grew up.

On Sept. 9, 1907,she married George Arthur Longman in Carroll. To this union was born eight children, four dying in infancy, one at the age of eight and one at the age of 28.

She became a member of the Free Methodist church in the summer of 1948 and has been active in various offices in the church.

Surviving are two children, Clyde Longman and Mrs. Mae Wilson, both of Estherville; two brothers, Arthur C. Shuttleworth of Estherville and Walter Shuttleworth of Los Angeles, Calif.; and several grandchildren and a number of other relatives.

Preceding her in death were her husband in Jan. 29, 1944, six children and her parents.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Sternborg Funeral chapel and at 2:30 p.m. at the Free Methodist church with the Re. Alan R. Crandall of Glenville, Minn., and the Rev. Herbert Baker of Estherville officiating. Burial will be in Oakhill cemetery. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 1, 1951)