Emory M. Price

Private graveside services for Emory M. Price, 69, Baldwin, will be today at Oakwood Cemetery in Baldwin.Mr. Price died Monday, May 16, 2005, at his home.He was born Sept. 10, 1935, in Lawrence, the son of Raymond E. and Violet C. Jardon Price. He graduated from Baldwin High School in 1953. He lived in Memphis, Tenn., Yellville, Ark., and moved to Baldwin in 1983.Mr. Price served in the U.S. Air Force at the Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi from 1957 to 1963. He was a salesman for Mac Tools and Snap On Tools. He also worked as a carpenter for several years. He was a member of the Lloyd Beaton American Legion Post 228 in Baldwin.He married Yvonne D. Garrelts on Dec. 15, 1957, in Buckley, Ill. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include two daughters, Renee Blake, Prairie Village, and Rhonda Levens, Syracuse; two sisters, Laverna Heffner, Overbrook, and Cleo Groff, Sun City, Calif.; and three grandchildren.A son, Dale, died earlier.The family suggests memorials to Baker University Women’s Basketball, sent in care of Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66076.