Emma Knight

Emma Ruth Knight

January 17, 1938 ~ May 27, 2020 | 82


Emma Knight

Funeral services for Ms. Emma Ruth Knight, of East Dublin, Georgia will be held on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at 12 PM, at the graveside in the Knight Cemetery at the New Bethel AME Church Cemetery located at 1820 New Buckeye Road in East Dublin. Reverend A. J. Jones will deliver the eulogy.

Sister Knight was born on January 17, 1938, and raised in the Buckeye Community in Laurens County. She attended school in the Buckeye Community. She is a graduate of Oconee High School, and Morris Brown College in Atlanta. She was a teacher in the Dublin City School System for over forty years in elementary education at Washington Street and Saxon Heights Elementary Schools.

She was a member of the New Bethel AME Church where she did all that she could for the church. She like to attend local and out of town church conferences. She served the church in many capacities over the years including church secretary, Sunday school teacher, Sunday school superintendent, and Director of Vacation Bible school. She oversaw the Lay Program for the church until she was hospitalized.

She liked to sew and to quilt for herself and for others at times. She also liked to cook, work on the farm and she liked to work in her vegetable garden. Sister Knight passed away on May 27, 2020, at Fairview Park Hospital.

Ms. Knight is survived by her sister, Mamie Knight, a sister-in-law, nephews, nieces, cousins, church members, a close friend, Charles Lindberg Carswell, and three adopted pets, Blackie, Nickie and Rocky.

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Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin


Cemetery

Knight Cemetery, 1820 New Buckeye Road, East Dublin, Georgia

235 Days until next birthday (1/17/2021 or 17/1/2021)
131 Days since previous birthday (1/17/2020 or 17/1/2020)
148 Day of the year passed on
218 Remaining days in the year
72 5/27/2020   (5 + 27 + 20 + 20)
82 Years lived
30081 Total days lived