10/20/2016
James Harold Emmons, 70, passed away October 17, 2016. A memorial service will be held on October 22, 2016 at East Texas Baptist Family Ministry following the Poissoit-Emmons family reunion. East Texas Baptist Family Ministry is located at 13776 FM 138, Timpson, Texas 75975.
James Harold Emmons was born on October 20, 1945 to the union of the late Richard Irvin Emmons and the Bertha Catherine Poissoit Emmons in Center, Texas.
James was a Christ follower and attended Gateway Church in Frisco, Texas. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany. James was employed by Cottonwood Creek Apartments in Allen, Texas where he also lived for nearly thirty years. He was a man of many talents. He was a woodworker, carpenter, as well as an accomplished artist, singer and musician, and he was once a member of the gospel singing group The Ambassadors. You could often find him playing his piano keyboard or guitars.
God called James Emmons home on October 17, 2016. He was proceeded in death by his father, Richard Irvin Emmons; his mother, Bertha Catherine Poissoit Emmons; brothers, Bill, Roger and Eugene Emmons; and sisters, Geraldine Emmons and Joyce Jackson.
James leaves behind to cherish his memory his daughters, Regina Arndt of Loudon, Tennessee and Amy Murphy of Beaumont, Texas, as well as three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
James Emmons was the eighth of ten children. His surviving siblings are Dorothy Forbis, Patsy Jo Stroud, Beverly Dickinson and Gail Allums.
He will also be missed by a host of other relatives and friends.
