Submitted by: Barbara Faye Smedley Tucker<tuckarb701@bellsouth.net>
              - Granddaughter
        Date: March 15, 2007
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Emma Christine "Tenna" (Kemp) Smedley December 9, 1977 Holtville
Tribune, Holtville,Imperial County,CA

EMMA CHRISTINE "TENNA" (KEMP) SMEDLEY
Funeral services will be held  at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 10, 1977 at
Hems Brothers Chapel, El Centro,CA, for Christine Smedley, 84, who died
Wednesday, December 7, 1977 at the Royal Convalescent Home in Brawley,CA.
Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro. The Rev. Ernest
Hobbs of the Pentecostal Church of God will officiate. The mortuary
chapel will be open for visitation today from 6-9 p.m.
Emma Christine "Tenna" (Kemp) Smedley was born July 5, 1893 in
Mineola,Howard County,AR, and had been an Imperial County resident for
the past 49 years. She had been a cook for 40 years prior to her
retirement, and last worked for Crabtree's Cafe in Holtville.
She is survived by a son, William Henry Bill" Smedley, of Holtville;
three daughters, Autie Nadine (Smedley) Davis, El Centro; Maudie Leona
(Smedley) Jones, Holtville; Thelma Aree (Smedley) Chiever, Beaumont; two
sisters living in Arkansas; 14 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and
one great-great-grandchild.