Obituary

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR EMIL THOMAS, 79, OF 1984 ALTA WEST RD. WHO DIED UNEXPECTEDLY WEDNESDAY EVENING IN MANSFIELD GENERAL HOSPITAL, WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT 10 AM IN THE DIAMOND ST HOME OF WAPPNER FUNERAL DIRECTORS BY HIS PASTOR, THE REV. MARCUS S. BUEHRER.
BURIAL WILL BE IN MANSFIELD MEMORIAL PARK. CALLING HOURS ARE TODAY FROM 2 TO 4 AND 7 TO 9PM. MASONIC SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 8:30 TONIGHT. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE MADE TO THE DAYTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, WHERE HIS GRANDCHILDREN ATTEND.
MR. THOMAS WAS BORN DEC. 18, 1907, IN MANSFIELD AND LIVED HERE ALL OF HIS LIFE. HE WAS A RETIRED EMPLOYEE OF THE TAPPAN CO. WHERE HE WORKED 42 YEARS.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF ST. JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.
SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, ANNA HOFFMAN THOMAS, ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. CLYDE COOPER, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, AND ONE SISTER.