Emory Knotts
| Date of Interment or Death | 05/25/1936 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 3-4-10 |
| Notes | No marker at recorded space |
Obituary
Emory D. Knotts Is Called To Rest
Emory D. Knotts, for the past years a resident of Wyndmere and the proprietor of the Wyndmere Hotel, passed away at the Breckenridge hospital at about eight o’clock this Thursday morning, May 21, 1936. Mr. Knotts had been sick for nearly two months and had been in the hospital for seven weeks. The cause of his death was complications following a major surgery, about four weeks ago. He was sixty-four years of age at the time of his passing.
Born in Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1872, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knotts. He received his early education in local schools and was later graduated from Valparaiso University and also from Ladoga College, Ladoga, Indiana. He came out to South Dakota where he taught school at Salem and where he was married in 1890 to Mabel A. Fuller who survives hime. To this union team children were born, five of whom preceded him in death. They are, Alf Whittaker and Genetha Elixabeth, twin, buried in Wahpeton; Lois Dorothy; Armanis Edward and Ione Frances, all of whom passed away in Gary Indiana and are buried there. The surviving children are, Mrs. Vera Mason of Gary; Mrs. Edna May of Detroit, Mich, Genetha M. Harold of Sedalia, Mo, Melroy of Wyndmere and Mrs. Lawrence Jones of Wyndmere. A sister, Mrs. E. S. Gleason of Sioux Falls, S. D., and a brother, Armanis F. Knotts or Yankeetown, Florida and a brother, William, who resides at Rockford, Texas. There are also a number of grandchildren to mourn his passing.
Mr. Knotts was a man of wide and varied experience. He had been a schoolmaster, a teacher in the Indian school of the Sisseton, S. Dak., a building contractor and machinist. But for the most part he had been a mew paper man. Before coming to Wyndmere, the Knotts family published a paper in Belfield, N. D. Both Mr. and Mrs Knotts were newspaper people, coming both from that lineage. They at one time published a paper at Wahpeton. Other prints at which they engaged in the profession were Spencer, S. D., Francisville and Weatland, and Chicago, Illinois.And althoughMr. Knotts was engaged in other endeavors, his heart was ever toward the newspaper. He had been a member of several fraternal orders and he had been a life-long Democrat. His views, however, were progressive and during his newspaper career, he had been a strong champion of progressiveness.
Funeral services will be held on Monday afternoon at 2:30 in the Wyndmere Methodist Church, with Rev. Forrest B Sharkey in charge of the services. The remains will be laid ti rest in Fairview Cemetery in Wahpeton where the twin children, Alf and Genetha are buried. Funeral arrangements are in the charge of the Beckwag Mortuary of Wyndmere. Pall bearers will be Dennis Blake, George Ottis, E. W. Bowen, George Johnson, O. I. Dokken and John Masek.
During the time Emory Knotts had been a Wyndmere resident, he became a close personal friend of the writer. He was always ready to apply his years of experience to any problem that confronted us and he often lent a helping hand with any difficulty in shop or office, a friend in need whose memory shall not soon be forgotten. And so it switch a deep sorrow that we are given the task of writing the last chapter in the life of a dear friend and a good neighbor. To the wife and children who survive him, we, of the Herald, extend our kind sympathy.
Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.