Submitted by: Barbara Faye Smedley Tucker - Granddaughter Date: March 15, 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 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.