Emmack, Lyle B. 1905-1984

EMMACK, WILLIAMS, BELL, RUNYAN, BROCK, BROOKS

Posted By: Charles Emmack (email)
Date: 4/27/2005 at 16:59:49

Lyle B. Emmack, 78, of 829 E. 7th St. N., a resident of Jasper County since 1938 and a salesman in various departments of Poweshiek-Jasper Farm Service Co. for more than 30 years, died Friday evening, July 6, at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, July 13, at the First United Methodist Church. Dr. Richard Bentzinger, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial of remains will be held in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Memorial contributions to Alzheimer's Research or the United Methodist Church Building Fund may be left at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

Survivors are his wife, Audra; three sons, Charles E. of Osceola, Norman B. of Omaha, Neb., and Malcolm W. of Indianapolis, Ind.; eight grandchildren; and three sisters, Zelma Williams and Mrs. John (Elva) Bell, both of Newton, and Mrs. Earl (Oleta) Runyan of Monroe. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Mr. Emmack also had been employed as a statistician for the South Shore Line Railroad in Chicago, Ill., and as a salesman for Swift and Co. in Joliet and Chicago, Ill.

The son of Guy B. and Myra T. Brock Emmack, he was born Aug. 19, 1905 near Newton, was a 1923 graduate of Newton Community High School, attended YMCA College in 1926 and was graduated from Chicago College of Advanced Traffic in 1930.

He was married to Audra H. Brooks May 2, 1931 in Chicago, Ill. ~ The Newton Daily News July, 1984.

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