The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C. - Wednesday, December 9, 1953, Page 4
MRS. EMILY WARD EXPIRES; REFUGE RITES THURSDAY
Mrs. Emily June Ward, 83, the widow of Luther Ward, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lee Hoots, in the Dana community.
The funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Refuge Baptist Church with the Rev. N. A. Melton officiating. Interment will be in the Refuge Cemetery with nephews as pallbearers and nieces as flower bearers. She will remain at the Jackson-Thompson Funeral Home until the service hour.
Mrs. Ward was a lifelong resident of the Dana community and a daughter of the late Jesse and Sarah Guice Maxwell. She was a member of the Refuge Church for 68 years.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Hoots; a brother, Frank Maxwell of Hendersonville; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Jackson of Asheville and Mrs. Bertha Garren of Hendersonville; three grandsons and seven great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews
The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C. - Wednesday, December 9, 1953, Page 4
MRS. EMILY WARD EXPIRES; REFUGE RITES THURSDAY
Mrs. Emily June Ward, 83, the widow of Luther Ward, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lee Hoots, in the Dana community.
The funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Refuge Baptist Church with the Rev. N. A. Melton officiating. Interment will be in the Refuge Cemetery with nephews as pallbearers and nieces as flower bearers. She will remain at the Jackson-Thompson Funeral Home until the service hour.
Mrs. Ward was a lifelong resident of the Dana community and a daughter of the late Jesse and Sarah Guice Maxwell. She was a member of the Refuge Church for 68 years.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Hoots; a brother, Frank Maxwell of Hendersonville; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Jackson of Asheville and Mrs. Bertha Garren of Hendersonville; three grandsons and seven great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews
Family Members
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Mary Malinda Maxwell Dermid
1866–1904
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Amanda Elizabeth Maxwell Corn
1868–1938
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Andrew Maxwell
1872–1910
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Lillian Maxwell Vaughn Jackson
1875–1957
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Jessie Albert Maxwell
1878–1936
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Tunnie Mae Maxwell Newman
1880–1934
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Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Maxwell
1882–1960
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Aletha Belle Maxwell Frazier
1884–1941
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Bertha Maxwell Garren
1886–1966
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