My grandmother.
Daughter of Emory Wilson Saunders and Charlotte Alice Wilcoxon, Gallia County, Ohio.
Wife of Franklin Lorn Little.
Beloved mother of Elsie Isabel, Leonidas Edgar "Lee", Rivers Chester "Pat", Ray Dale, Carl Clinton, Helen America, and Paul William Little.
I remember my grandmother as a woman of quiet strength and dignity. The photos of her are exactly as I saw her every day of her life. She wore soft flowered dresses, carried lace handkerchiefs, and usually wore a brooch that had been given to her by one of her children or grandchildren. I never heard her raise her voice, and I never saw her without a smile.
Like her mother before her, she somehow raised a house filled with rowdy children on a shoestring budget and love. The house began filling with grandchildren before her youngest was in school. She was always referred to as "Mother" by her seven children not because it was expected, but because that was the name they chose.
My grandfather was as Scot-Irish as they came, and she was probably the only woman he ever loved or wrote a love letter to. She was the calm that balanced his storms, kept him well fed, cleaned his house, raised his children, and scolded him when he drank. He called her "Woman", as though none other existed.
They watched three of their five sons and a son-in-law leave for WWII and waited anxiously for their photos and letters.
When they grew old they sat on the sofa and watched television together, westerns for him and Lawrence Welk for her. They sat in matching lawn chairs and sometimes they donned straw hats and went fishing. She usually out-fished him which was a source of puzzlement and irritation to him.
"Gammie, you were the heart and soul of our family, and when you passed we were so deeply saddened. But I know that we never lost you. I see you in the faces of your granddaughters, I hear you in their voices, and I have watched as they have raised their children and grandchildren with love and compassion. A true reflection of you." With love, Judy.
Effie G. Little
Mrs. Effie Gertrude Little, 520 Sycamore St., Middleport, passed away Saturday morning at the Gallipolis Clinic at the age of 75.
She was born in Gallia County, the daughter of the late Emory and Charlotte Saunders.
Mrs. Little is survived by her husband, Lorn Little; two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Haddox, Middleport, and Mrs. Helen Righthouse, Rt. 2, Pomeroy; five sons Lee of Phoenix, Ariz; Pat and Clinton, both of Canton; Paul of Youngstown, and Ray, Rt. 1, Pomeroy; one sister, Mrs. Leato (sic - Leota) Lynch, Rt. 1, Cheshire; two brothers, Roosevelt Saunders, Cleveland, and Terry Saunders, Baltimore, Md.; 17 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Merlin Teets officiating. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Little was a member of the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church.
Friends may call anytime at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home.
The Sunday Times-Sentinel
April 03, 1966
Daughter of Emory Wilson Saunders and Charlotte Alice Wilcoxon, Gallia County, Ohio.
Wife of Franklin Lorn Little.
Beloved mother of Elsie Isabel, Leonidas Edgar "Lee", Rivers Chester "Pat", Ray Dale, Carl Clinton, Helen America, and Paul William Little.
I remember my grandmother as a woman of quiet strength and dignity. The photos of her are exactly as I saw her every day of her life. She wore soft flowered dresses, carried lace handkerchiefs, and usually wore a brooch that had been given to her by one of her children or grandchildren. I never heard her raise her voice, and I never saw her without a smile.
Like her mother before her, she somehow raised a house filled with rowdy children on a shoestring budget and love. The house began filling with grandchildren before her youngest was in school. She was always referred to as "Mother" by her seven children not because it was expected, but because that was the name they chose.
My grandfather was as Scot-Irish as they came, and she was probably the only woman he ever loved or wrote a love letter to. She was the calm that balanced his storms, kept him well fed, cleaned his house, raised his children, and scolded him when he drank. He called her "Woman", as though none other existed.
They watched three of their five sons and a son-in-law leave for WWII and waited anxiously for their photos and letters.
When they grew old they sat on the sofa and watched television together, westerns for him and Lawrence Welk for her. They sat in matching lawn chairs and sometimes they donned straw hats and went fishing. She usually out-fished him which was a source of puzzlement and irritation to him.
"Gammie, you were the heart and soul of our family, and when you passed we were so deeply saddened. But I know that we never lost you. I see you in the faces of your granddaughters, I hear you in their voices, and I have watched as they have raised their children and grandchildren with love and compassion. A true reflection of you." With love, Judy.
Effie G. Little
Mrs. Effie Gertrude Little, 520 Sycamore St., Middleport, passed away Saturday morning at the Gallipolis Clinic at the age of 75.
She was born in Gallia County, the daughter of the late Emory and Charlotte Saunders.
Mrs. Little is survived by her husband, Lorn Little; two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Haddox, Middleport, and Mrs. Helen Righthouse, Rt. 2, Pomeroy; five sons Lee of Phoenix, Ariz; Pat and Clinton, both of Canton; Paul of Youngstown, and Ray, Rt. 1, Pomeroy; one sister, Mrs. Leato (sic - Leota) Lynch, Rt. 1, Cheshire; two brothers, Roosevelt Saunders, Cleveland, and Terry Saunders, Baltimore, Md.; 17 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Merlin Teets officiating. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Little was a member of the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church.
Friends may call anytime at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home.
The Sunday Times-Sentinel
April 03, 1966
My grandmother.
Daughter of Emory Wilson Saunders and Charlotte Alice Wilcoxon, Gallia County, Ohio.
Wife of Franklin Lorn Little.
Beloved mother of Elsie Isabel, Leonidas Edgar "Lee", Rivers Chester "Pat", Ray Dale, Carl Clinton, Helen America, and Paul William Little.
I remember my grandmother as a woman of quiet strength and dignity. The photos of her are exactly as I saw her every day of her life. She wore soft flowered dresses, carried lace handkerchiefs, and usually wore a brooch that had been given to her by one of her children or grandchildren. I never heard her raise her voice, and I never saw her without a smile.
Like her mother before her, she somehow raised a house filled with rowdy children on a shoestring budget and love. The house began filling with grandchildren before her youngest was in school. She was always referred to as "Mother" by her seven children not because it was expected, but because that was the name they chose.
My grandfather was as Scot-Irish as they came, and she was probably the only woman he ever loved or wrote a love letter to. She was the calm that balanced his storms, kept him well fed, cleaned his house, raised his children, and scolded him when he drank. He called her "Woman", as though none other existed.
They watched three of their five sons and a son-in-law leave for WWII and waited anxiously for their photos and letters.
When they grew old they sat on the sofa and watched television together, westerns for him and Lawrence Welk for her. They sat in matching lawn chairs and sometimes they donned straw hats and went fishing. She usually out-fished him which was a source of puzzlement and irritation to him.
"Gammie, you were the heart and soul of our family, and when you passed we were so deeply saddened. But I know that we never lost you. I see you in the faces of your granddaughters, I hear you in their voices, and I have watched as they have raised their children and grandchildren with love and compassion. A true reflection of you." With love, Judy.
Effie G. Little
Mrs. Effie Gertrude Little, 520 Sycamore St., Middleport, passed away Saturday morning at the Gallipolis Clinic at the age of 75.
She was born in Gallia County, the daughter of the late Emory and Charlotte Saunders.
Mrs. Little is survived by her husband, Lorn Little; two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Haddox, Middleport, and Mrs. Helen Righthouse, Rt. 2, Pomeroy; five sons Lee of Phoenix, Ariz; Pat and Clinton, both of Canton; Paul of Youngstown, and Ray, Rt. 1, Pomeroy; one sister, Mrs. Leato (sic - Leota) Lynch, Rt. 1, Cheshire; two brothers, Roosevelt Saunders, Cleveland, and Terry Saunders, Baltimore, Md.; 17 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Merlin Teets officiating. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Little was a member of the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church.
Friends may call anytime at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home.
The Sunday Times-Sentinel
April 03, 1966
Daughter of Emory Wilson Saunders and Charlotte Alice Wilcoxon, Gallia County, Ohio.
Wife of Franklin Lorn Little.
Beloved mother of Elsie Isabel, Leonidas Edgar "Lee", Rivers Chester "Pat", Ray Dale, Carl Clinton, Helen America, and Paul William Little.
I remember my grandmother as a woman of quiet strength and dignity. The photos of her are exactly as I saw her every day of her life. She wore soft flowered dresses, carried lace handkerchiefs, and usually wore a brooch that had been given to her by one of her children or grandchildren. I never heard her raise her voice, and I never saw her without a smile.
Like her mother before her, she somehow raised a house filled with rowdy children on a shoestring budget and love. The house began filling with grandchildren before her youngest was in school. She was always referred to as "Mother" by her seven children not because it was expected, but because that was the name they chose.
My grandfather was as Scot-Irish as they came, and she was probably the only woman he ever loved or wrote a love letter to. She was the calm that balanced his storms, kept him well fed, cleaned his house, raised his children, and scolded him when he drank. He called her "Woman", as though none other existed.
They watched three of their five sons and a son-in-law leave for WWII and waited anxiously for their photos and letters.
When they grew old they sat on the sofa and watched television together, westerns for him and Lawrence Welk for her. They sat in matching lawn chairs and sometimes they donned straw hats and went fishing. She usually out-fished him which was a source of puzzlement and irritation to him.
"Gammie, you were the heart and soul of our family, and when you passed we were so deeply saddened. But I know that we never lost you. I see you in the faces of your granddaughters, I hear you in their voices, and I have watched as they have raised their children and grandchildren with love and compassion. A true reflection of you." With love, Judy.
Effie G. Little
Mrs. Effie Gertrude Little, 520 Sycamore St., Middleport, passed away Saturday morning at the Gallipolis Clinic at the age of 75.
She was born in Gallia County, the daughter of the late Emory and Charlotte Saunders.
Mrs. Little is survived by her husband, Lorn Little; two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Haddox, Middleport, and Mrs. Helen Righthouse, Rt. 2, Pomeroy; five sons Lee of Phoenix, Ariz; Pat and Clinton, both of Canton; Paul of Youngstown, and Ray, Rt. 1, Pomeroy; one sister, Mrs. Leato (sic - Leota) Lynch, Rt. 1, Cheshire; two brothers, Roosevelt Saunders, Cleveland, and Terry Saunders, Baltimore, Md.; 17 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. Merlin Teets officiating. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Little was a member of the Silver Run Free Will Baptist Church.
Friends may call anytime at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home.
The Sunday Times-Sentinel
April 03, 1966
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