Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Emmitt Baxter Calhoun ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Emmitt Baxter Calhoun Emmitt Baxter Calhoun, brother of Mrs. Eula Tacker (sic) of Celeste, died Tuesday morning, February 24, 1959, in a traffic accident near Muskogee, Oklahoma. He made his home at Grand Prairie. Funeral services were held Thursday at Blue Ridge Baptist Church and burial was made in Elm Grove Cemetery. Calhoun was born and reared at Blue Ridge, but had made his home at Grand Prairie the past three years. Surviving are his wife, Dassie Calhoun; two daughters, Mrs. Louise Holder, Dallas, and Mrs. Diana Miller, Freemont, California; one step-son, Franklin Bell of Grand Prairie; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Oscar Calhoun and Frank Calhoun of Blue Ridge; five sisters, Mrs. Ray Smith, Blue Ridge, Lizzie Calhoun and Mrs. Winnie Langham of Blue Ridge, Mrs. Ollie Davis of Houston, and Mrs. Tacker of Celeste. (February 27, 1959, The Celeste Courier)