Freestone County, Texas
Obits

Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 15, 2003

Emily (Burns) Rhoten

Emily Rhoten, 84, of Amarillo died Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Memorial Park Funeral Home, Chapel of
Memories, 6969 E. Interstate 40, with the Rev. Danny Lucas officiating. Burial
will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Rhoten was born April 28, 1919, in Freestone County to Johnnie Burns and
Arrie Missouri Slaughter Little. She married Rex Rhoten in June 1967 in Borger.
She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Rex in October 2000; a daughter,
Vicki Gray in August 2003; her father in August 1946; and her mother in
February 1950.

Survivors include a son, Gary Temple of Reno, Nev.; a stepdaughter, Carol Petty
of Borger; a sister, Irene West of Gorman; four brothers, Bennie Little of
Jacksboro, J.L. Little of Amarillo, Edwin Little of Weatherford and Paul Edward
Little of Memphis, Tenn.; a  brother-in-law and wife, June, of Fritch; two
sisters-in-law, Nova Little of Pampa and Dale Little of Graham; two
grandchildren, Dena Ware of Burleson and David Gray of Amarillo; two
stepgrandchildren, Craig Petty and Cheryl Herdijurgen; six great-grandchildren;
and many special nieces and nephews and precious friends in Fritch, Borger and
Amarillo.