Smyrna times., 1931-10-28
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Miss Emma II. Potter, for Years
on the Faculty of Conference
Academy, Dover, Passes Away

on the Faculty of Conference
Academy, Dover, Passes Away
Miss Emily R. Potter, formerly
of Dover, for years a member of
the teaching staff of old Confer
ence Academy, now Wesley Col
legiate Institute, died at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Eva P. Reming-
ton in Rochester, N. Y, last Satur-
dav. The announcement of her
death was received with sorrow in
Dover, where she lived, and among
pupils of the Academy, now grown
to womanhood and manhood, liv-
ing about Smyrna and all over
the State. Miss Potter graduated
from Syracuse University when a
girl and came at once to teach in
the Wilmington Conference Acad-
emy. For forty-three years,
through various administrations of
the school and through corporate
changes resulting in the title of
Wesley Collegiate Institute, Miss
Potter remained the one perman-
ent member of the faculty. Dur
ing these years she declined sever
al offered promotions because she
loved the school and the young
people she was helping to train
and the many friends she had in
Dover. She treasured memories Of
more than a thousand students
who rose to distinction in the pro-
fesional and business life of the
! Delmarva Peninsula. None of
them ever returned to their Alma
Mater without promptly seeking
Miss Potter and not one of them
+ ever failed to instantaneous rec
ognition and cordial greeting. 1t
is we'll within the truth to say that
this gifted woman has helped to
train most of the distinguished
men and women in the State Of
I Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Counties of Maryland. Ministers,
lawyers, judges, educators, physi-
clans, political leaders, business
men and most of their wives and
children were among her pupils.
Mrs. J. b. Emory, Barclay, Md.
Mrs. Emma E. Emory, aged 63,
widow of the late James B. En-
ory, of Barclay, Md, who died at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Ar
thur r. Cooper, near st. Pauls
Church, last Wednesday, was bur
led at Templeville, Md, Saturday.
Surviving her are the following
children: Charles Emory, Of Cen
treville; Louis Emory, Of Roberts;
Mrs. Frank Pinder, Of Kennedy
vile; Fred Emory, of Riverside,
N. j.; Mrs. Temple Keaton, Of
Templeville; Mrs. Arthur r. Coop
er, near st. Paul's Church; James
Emory, Kennel Square, Pa; and
Mrs. William Mclaughlin, Sudlers-
vile, Md. Also five sisters, Mrs.
Helen Ross, Mrs. Frank S. Plum
mer, Mrs. Rosie Ward, Mrs. Alice
Cole, Mrs. Mary Mcdaniel, Of
Queen Anne's county.
Mrs. Edwin Gardner Passes Away
Mrs. Emily l. Gardner, So, widow
of the Rev. Edwin Gardner, of the
Wilmington M. E. Conference, died
Monday night at her home at
Chesapeake City, Md, after a brief
illness. She was a daughter Of the
late Rev. Charles F. Sheppard,
formerly Of Marydel, who was a
prominent Methodist Episcopal
minister. She is survived by two
children, Sheppard Gardner, Of
Chesapeake City, and Mrs. Miriam
Sheppard Speakman of Kent Coun-
ty, Maryland. Her funeral took
place this afternoon from her late
home.
Mrs. Emerson Dies Kent Hospital
Mrs. jamie May Emerson, wife
of Lawrence Emerson Of 125 Glad
ston Street, Philadelphia, died last
Wednesday at the Kent General
Hospital at Dover. She had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. William
Cox at "Spruance City," West
Smyrna, and had been here about
two months. Funeral services were
held on Saturday afternoon at 1.30
o'clock at the Church of the Naz-
arene of this town and interment
made at Templeville, Md.
Death of George r. Holt, Dover
George r. Holt, aged fifty-four
year, died at his home in Dover
Saturday as the result of a cere-
bral hemorrhage with which he
was stricken while sitting in a
BARRIERS chair on Friday evening.
Mr.. Holt had been an invalid for
over three years.