Mary Elsie Eudoris Emmett, 86, Harrisonville, Missouri, died Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at Crown Care Center in Harrisonville. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 16 at the Atkinson Chapel in Harrisonville. Visitation will be from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Saturday at the chapel. Burial will be in Garden City Cemetery, Garden City, Missouri.

Mary was born July 2, 1925 in Clarendon, Texas, the daughter of William Alexander and Mary Eulala (Meadders) McIntire. During WWII, Mary was a welder and boilermaker at shipyards in California. She had lived in Miami, Oklahoma before moving to Cass County, Missouri in 1956. She worked for Osawatomie State Hospital as a nurse's aide before retiring in 1988. She was a member of Southfork Baptist Church in Drexel, Missouri.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, two daughters, Betty Arms and Gracie Frisby; three sons, William Emmett, Jr. Lee Wilson and Henry Edgar Tanner and one sister. She is survived by two sons, James Emmett, Commerce City, Colorado and Robert "Bobby" Sutton, Osceola, Indiana; eight daughters, Patsy Urban, Cardin, Oklahoma, Rhea Conlon, Garden City, Missouri, Lois Cunningham, Harrisonville, Missouri, Maxine Johnson, Drexel, Missouri, Suzella Graham, Garden City, Missouri, Elsie Goben, Garden City, Missouri, Loretta Ernest, LaCygne, Kansas and Valerie Lee, Kidder, Missouri; 48 grandchildren; 151 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.