Submitted by Emily O'neal
Rome News Tribune Aug. 14, 1963
Funeral Set Thursday For Mrs. Emma Boggs, 70
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Ruth Boggs, 70, of 504 West 12th St., who
died in a Rome convalescent home Tuesday evening, will be held at 11 a.m.
Thursday in the chapel of Jennings Funeral Home with the Rev. J. A. Nolan
and the Rev. S. H. Pendley officiating. Interment will be in Pisgah
Cemetery.
The body will remain at the funeral home and the family will receive
friends there from 7 until 9 o'clock tonight. At other hours the family will be at the
residence onWest 12th St.
Pallbearers include Hobart Bennett, Albert Brown, Jimmie Johnson, Everett
Meadows, Clayton Byars and Evans Burnes.
She had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County her entire life and was
a member of Pisgah Baptist Church. Her husband, James Walter Boggs, died
Feb. 21, 1939.
(Note: Emma Boggs died Aug. 14)