Clarke-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Day, Emory Deaver May 25, 1952
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Banner Herald, Athens, Georgia, May 25, 1952
OBITUARY EMORY D (DEAVER) DAY
Banner Herald, Athens, Georgia, May 25, 1952
Transcribed by Connie Epps Bond June 16, 2007

Rites for Emory 
D Day Sunday 

Services will be conducted this afternoon at 5:30 o’clock from Bridges Chapel 
for Emory Deaver Day, who died suddenly Friday in a local hotel.  Officating 
will be Rev. R. N. Saye, pastor of Edward’s Chapel, and burial will follow in 
Oconee Hill Cemetery.

Pall-bearers will be Bartow Strickland, Sheriff Tommy Huff, Curtis Hammond, 
Jack Thornton, Don Johnson, Dan Warwick, Stanley Little and Oscar McLeroy.

Surviving Mr. Day is his wife, the former Miss Thelma Epps, whom he married 
here in November of 1948; son, Deaver Day, Athens, father; J C Day, Lexington; 
mother, Mrs J C Day, Athens; five sisters, Mrs Al Lonckl, Chicago, Ill., Mrs J 
I Stokes, Bamberg, SC, Mrs F M Yenerall, Niagara Falls, N Y and Mrs Grace 
Little and Mrs Roy Amos, both of Athens; two brothers, Earl Day and G T Day, 
both of Atlanta.

A native of Lexington, Mr Day had resided here most of his life.  He attended 
Athens schools and entered the Navy in 1943, being on active duty in the 
Pacific Theater.    He spent three years in service and then returned to 
Okinowa to help construct military installations.  He later returned to Athens 
and worked here and in Atlanta.  At the time of his death he was working on 
the new Library Building at the University.  Mr. Day was 31 years old and was 
a member of the Baptist Church.

Coroner, S C Cartledge opened an inquest into the death of Mr Day but since 
reports of specialists will not be available until Tuesday, recessed the 
inquest until then.



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#----Athens Banner Herald, Athens, GA

The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Emroy Deaver Day of Athens, GA, 
master Deaver Day, Mr. J. C. Day, Lexington, Mrs. J. C. Day, Athens, Mr. and 
Mrs. Al Loncki, Chicago, Il, Mrs. Grace Little, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Amos, 
Athens, GA, Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Stokes, Bamberg, S.C., Mr. and Mrs. F. M. 
Yenerall, Niagra Falls, NY, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Day, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Day, 
Atlanta, GA.  This Sunday afternoon May 25, 1952, Bridges Chapel.  at 5:30 
o'clock, Rev. R. N. Saye, pastor of Edwards Chapel will officiate.  Mr. Barto 
Strickland, Mr. Don Jackson, Sherif Tommy Huff, Mr. Dan Warwick, Mr. Curtis 
Hammond, Mr. Stanley Little, Mr. Jack Thornton and Mr. Oscar McElroy will 
serve as pallbearers.  Interment will be in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Bridges 
Funeral Home.



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Seaman 2nd class, V-6 US Naval Reserve

cause of death, sudden illness





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##Note from Connie Epps Bond June 16, 2007 
Thelma Epps (SL) is the daughter of Oscar Earl Epps SR and Lottie Rebecca 
Wallace Epps (bur in Princeton Cem, Clarke Co., GA).
Emory Day is the first husband of Thelma Epps.
He is my uncle by marriage to my Aunt Thelma Epps Day. 
Aunt Thelma married 2nd Jim Norman.







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