Delmar George "Bud" Emmack
Born: June 16, 1919 in Metz, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: June 23, 1983 near Prairie City, Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 42, plot 4
Lot Owner: Delmar Emmack, purchased in 1944
Married: Joy Clark on July 30 1939 in Fort Scott, Kansas
Children: Delmar
Parents: Elmer and Georgia (Miller) Emmack
Delmar Emmack killed Thursday; rites Saturday
Prairie City -- Delmar G. Emmack, 64, a farmer who resided two miles north of Prairie City, was killed Thursday in a farm tractor accident
.Funeral services for Mr. Emmack, a lifelong Jasper County resident, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Prairie City.
The Rev. James Seibert, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City after 6 p.m. today.
Survivors are his wife, Joy; a son, Delmar L. of Colfax; two grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Richard (Maxine) Sille of Newton; and a brother, Donovan of Newton.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother and a sister.
Mr. Emmack, a member of the Sugar Grove Grange, was former president of the Mound Prairie Township School board.
The son of Elmer and Georgia Miller Emmack, he was born June 6, 1919 at Metz and was a 1936 graduate of Newton Community High School. He was married to Joy Clark July 30, 1939 in Fort Scott, Kansas. ~ Newton Daily News, August 1983.
