EMRY, Homer Lee 1916 - 1968

EMRY, OSWALT, RAMGE, HANEY, STEPHENS, HENRY, SHELANGOSKI, HOAGE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 11/14/2021 at 16:28:33

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, April 15, 1968
Page 8, Columns 3 and 4

Brighton Man Dies Suddenly

BRIGHTON -- Lee EMRY, 51, died suddenly Saturday after suffering a heart attack. An insurance agent, EMRY was stricken at the Brighton stockyards.

Services will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Brighton Methodist Church with the Rev. Gordon Packard officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery (note: in Washington Co., IA). The body is at the Gould Funeral Home there.

EMRY was born Nov. 11, 1916 north of Richland, the son of L. V. and Minnie OSWALT EMRY. Most of his life was spent in Brighton.

EMRY was married March 11, 1939 to Leota F. RAMGE. She died March 1, 1961. On April 26, 1962, he was married to Hiawanna HANEY, who survives.

Also surviving are three sons, Jack EMRY, Davenport; Howard EMRY, Brighton; and Jim EMRY, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and one step-daughter, Mrs. James STEPHENS, Brighton.

Other survivors are eight grandchildren; one brother, Wayne EMRY, Fort Collins, Colo.; and two sisters, Mrs. Peg HENRY, Washington; and Mrs. Harold SHELANGOSKI, Mount Pleasant.

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Note: Second wife Hiawana Tessabelle 'Swede' HOAGE COLLETT HANEY HANEY was married four times, with Lee being her fourth husband. She died in 2005 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA. Homer, who evidently went by Lee, was buried with his first wife Leota.