Emma Carolyn Huth
The funeral for Emma Carolyn Scharenberg Huth will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Lee Hoskins of the First United Methodist Church will conduct the service. Burial will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the restoration project for the miniature train at Soden’s Grove may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mrs. Huth died Friday, Feb. 16, 2007, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor, where she was a resident. She was 94. She also lived in Bella Vista, Ark.
She taught in the Lyon County rural schools, Nevada, Mo., schools, Reading and Admire grade schools and in Emporia at Kansas Avenue Grade School and Lowther Junior High School. She also was a cashier for Santa Fe Trailways Transportation Company and a real estate sales agent in Arkansas.
The daughter of Charles and Frieda Heise Scharenberg, she was born Oct. 18, 1912, near Cedar Point. She moved with her family in 1920 to the Chicago Mound community southeast of Emporia. She attended Chicago Mound Rural School and was an honors graduate of Emporia High School and Emporia State University.
She married Hardy Hubbard on July 1, 1931. He died Sept. 10, 1944. She married Julius Huth on May 23, 1951. He died Sept 2, 1964. She married Will Drake on Sept. 26, 1981. He died July 26, 1985.
Mrs. Huth was a member of the First Christian Church. She also was a member of Miriam Chapter 14 of the Order of the Eastern Star, Parliament Study Club, Kappa Kappa Iota sorority, Business and Professional Women and the BPW Past Presidents Club and the Emporia and national teachers’ organizations.
She is survived by one brother, George Scharenberg of Neosho Rapids. Other survivors in this area include two nieces, Elizabeth Nuessen and Linda Kurzen, both of Emporia.
An infant sister and three brothers, Ernest Scharenberg, Fred Scharenberg and Ellis Scharenberg, died earlier.