Lillian Louise Neel Emmert

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Lillian Louise Neel Emmert

Lillian Louise Neel Emmert passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at the age of 94. She was born July 30, 1917 in Rural Retreat, Virginia, the second of three children born to John Richard and Mary Frances Painter Neel. At an early age, she moved with her family to Bristol, Tennessee, the town she always called "home", and where she met and married Charles "C.L." Emmert. They were wed on January 1, 1938, a date purposefully picked so C.L. would never have an excuse to forget their anniversary.

In 1942, C.L.''s job with the Southern Pacific Railroad brought them out West; first to Wells, Nevada, and then to Ogden, where they settled and raised their four children.

Louise was active in the Women''s Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Clara Barton Division until that organization was dissolved. Later she was a member and treasurer of the Southern Pacific Old-Timers (SPOT).

She had been a seasonal tax examiner at the Internal Revenue Service Center in Ogden for a number of years, until her retirement.

Louise was a member of Miriam Chapter No. 14, Order of the Eastern Star and Ogden Assembly No. 254, Social Order of the Beauceant.

She was a charter member of Trinity Presbyterian Church, where she was ordained as an Elder and a Deacon, and served in many capacities for the church, including Financial Secretary, and was the only female member of the original Building Committee.

Louise is survived by her daughter, Mary Sue (Roger) Tomlinson; sons, C. Richard (Paula) Emmert and David N. (Lorraine) Emmert; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty-eight years; her parents; sister, Elizabeth Hickam; brother, James Neel; daughter, Carolyn Emmert Hornback and great-grandson Brendan Jobe.

Graveside services will be held on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 3 p.m. at Lindquist''s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road. A memorial service will follow at 4 p.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 140 North Tyler Avenue. Friends may visit family on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.

The family would like to thank the staffs of Roy Beehive Home, VistaCare Hospice, and Wasatch Care Center for their loving care of Mother these past few months.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a charity of the donor''s choice.