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Note: Topeka city directory, 1921:
Carter, Lucille stenogr Met Life Ins. Co. b. 1215 Kansas av.
from the Topeka Capital-Journal, Thursday, June 27, 1991, page 10-B
MRS. HELEN LUCILE EMERSON
BURLINGTON, Wash. --- Mrs. Helen Lucile Emerson, 89, Burlington, Wash., died Wednesday, June 26, 1991, at Burlington.
Mrs. Emerson and her husband owned the Burlington Journal, a weekly newspaper, from 1949 to 1959.
She was born June 23, 1902, in Topeka, Kan., the daughter of John and Sarah VanOstran Carter. She moved from Kansas to Washington in 1943 and lived in Oak Harbor and Sedro-Woolley before she moved to Burlington in 1949.
Mrs. Emerson was a member of the Christian Church in Mount Vernon and a 55-year member and past matron of Holly Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star in Burlington; past grand representative to Kansas and past royal matron of Mount Vernon Court, Order of Amaranth; past president of Zulieka Club of Hatsu Temple, Daughters of the Nile; past preseident of Alpha Club, Burlington, Federated Women's Clubs; past mother-advisor of Sedro-Woolley Assembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls and recipient of Grand Cross of Colors in Burlington. She also was a member of the auxiliary to Typographical Union in Topeka, Kansas.
Her husband, Ernest E. Emerson, died in 1967 and a daughter, Helen Guggemos, also preceded her in death.
Survivors include two daughters, Dorothy Higgs, Topeka,, and Nancy C. Hall, Bellingham; a son, Kenneth D. Emerson, Santa Clara, California; a sister, Dorothea G. Brooks, Topeka; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 7 p.m. Friday in Hulbush Funeral home in Burlington, Wash. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kansas Masonic Oncology Fund, P.O. Box 1217, Topeka, KS 66601-1217
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