Emma Hanners

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Emma Francway Hanners, of Jonesboro, Ark., died Sunday morning at the Craighead Nursing Center in Jonesboro. Born in Forrest City Ark., she had lived in Jonesboro since 1975, moving here from the Buckeye Community near Leachville, Ark.. She was married in 1936 to Virgil J. Hanners, who preceded her in death. She was a farm wife and homemaker, co-owned a country store, Buckeye Store, with her husband in the late 1930s, and in her later years was a cosmetologist working throughout Northeast Arkansas.

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