Schultz, LeOra (Emmack) Blackledge 1909-1968

SCHULTZ, VERMILLION, SPIDLE, BLACKLEDGE, BURK, KNOX, SMITH, EMMACK, SILLE

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 9/12/2006 at 13:58:41

LeOra Schultz Dies in Hospital; Services Friday

Mrs. Alfred (LeOra Mae) Schultz, 59, of 711 N. Third Ave. E., a lifelong resident of Jasper County, died in Skiff Memorial Hospital today. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Johnson Funeral Chapel.

Burial will be Sugar Grove Cemetery southwest of Newton. Mrs. Schultz will lie in state in the Johnson Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Thursday.

Survivors are her husband; six daughters, Mrs. James (Roberta) Vermillion, Mrs. Cecil (Juanita) Spidle and Miss Sharon Blackledge, all of Newton, Mrs. Richard (Marvelyn) Burk and Mrs. Byron (Barbara) Knox both of Des Moines, and Mrs. Ronald (Janice) Smith of Tama; and two sons, Leland Blackledge of Des Moines and Leslie Blackledge of Newton; and 16 grandchildren. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Richard (Maxine) Sille of Newton and two brothers, Donovan Emmack of Newton and Delmar Emmack of Colfax.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.

The daughter of Elmer C. and Georgianna Miller Emmack, she was born June 2, 1909, in the Metz area southwest of Newton.

She was educated in Newton schools and Capital City Commercial College in Des Moines.

She was married to Glen Blackledge in 1929 and later was married to Alfred Schultz in October 1961. Mrs. Schultz attended Community Heights Alliance Church. ~ Newton Daily News, August 15, 1968.

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