Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[This is Emily Tullias Day] 


The Fairfield Recorder - August 11, 1977 - Page 11

Emily Day

Miss Emily Day, daughter of William Preston Day and Lila Williams Day, was born
March 17, 1904, five miles northeast of Fairfield.  At an early age, after the
death of her parents, she came to live in the home of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Huckaby.  She continued to live in the Huckaby home the remainder of her
life.  She passed away in Granville C. Morton Hospital at Wadley Institute in
Dallas, Texas, Sunday, August 7, 1977.

Funeral services under direction of Capps Funeral Home were held Tuesday at 10
a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. D. C. Pruitt and Rev. Dewey Morgan
officiating.  Interment was at Fairfield Cemetery.

Miss Day was a charter member of Calvary Baptist Church and had been a Sunday
School teacher there for over fifty years.  She was also a member of the
Women's Missionary Auxiliary and was active in all phases of church work.  Miss
Day was a member of Freestone County Senior Citizens, Garden Club and a
volunteer at the Fairview Manor Nursing Home.  

Survivors are one brother, Gattice Day, Fairfield; cousins, Mary Vernon
Withrow, Orange, Tex., Annette Sullins, Tehuacana, Lila Tate, Fairfield,
Charlotte Hemby, Troup, Tex., Hester Dunbar, Fairfield and a number of other
relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were Billy Paul Withrow, James F. (Buddy) Withrow, Bill Sullins,
Frank Parker, Jimmy Hemby, Neal Vance, and Joe Hancock.