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Baker City, Baker County, Oregon
Death Summons Emma Lois Case
2 Sons Survive Baker Woman; Funeral to Be Saturday
Mrs. Emma Lois Case, resident of Baker county for many years, died at 1:30 this morning at the home of Mrs. Lindsay, 2310 Church street. She had been ill for two months.
Mrs. Case was born in Iowa October 19, 1860. She lived in Sumpter for several years and came to Baker shortly before the fire that destroyed Sumpter in 1917. Mrs. Case lived here the remainder of her life.
She was a member of the Rebekah lodge, Neighbors of Woodcraft, ladies of the G.A.R. and the auxiliary of the Patriarch Militant, I.O.O.F.
The deceased is survived by two sons, Ernest Hurley of La Grande and Carter Hurley of Alsaka, and three sisters. A son, Earl Case died in Portland last summer.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday in the West and company parlors with the auxiliary of the Patriarch Militant in charge. Interment will be in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Source: Baker Democrat Herald, December 4, 1931, page 1
Contributed by: Sue Wells