H. Lee Emerson Dies

After H. Lee Emerson’s death, the business continued under the directorships of his son-in-law Harold J. Newkirk and William C. Leeper. At the time, Harold was working another job but he returned full time to the business in 1966. He became a partner with M. Gladys Emerson in 1968 and it became the Emerson-Newkirk Funeral Home. When Rosa Lee Emerson Newkirk obtained her funeral director’s license in 1969, she became the fourth generation of the Emerson family to be licensed.