Cathosala, Georgia
COOK, Emma Roddy - Mrs. Emma Roddy Cook Dies Sunday, Buried Today - Prairie Grove, August 24 - Mrs. Emma Roddy Cook died Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at the Elizabeth Hospital where she was taken on last Thursday, suffering from an intestinal complication. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church this afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by her pastor, Rev. W.A. Lindsay. Burial will be in the Prairie Grove cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be Guy Skelton, Delford Rieff, Jack Harlin, Henry Carnahan, Arthur McCormick and Ed Rich, girls in charge of the flowers, Misses Ruth Dodson, Bernice McCormick, Louie Carlile and Darine Baggett.
Mrs. Cook was 86 years old and was born in Georgia, coming to Arkansas after her marriage. Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Sam Carnahan of Viney Grove, Mrs. Newt Cunningham of Prairie Grove, with whom Mrs. Cook had lived for 18 years, and a son, Roddy Clark of Oklahoma City. [Fayetteville Democrat 8/24/1936]