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Submitted: 2/4/11 • Approved: 10/15/21 • Last Updated: 10/18/21 • R459764-G459763-S3
Jimmie
November 27, 1940 - September 5,1991
Mason
Emma
November 1, 1911 - February 4, 2008
Emma Jane Corbin Payne was born in Plainview, Arkansas to the late Jay A. and Lula (Franks) Corbin. She was raised at Ola, Arkansas and lived most of her life in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1978, she moved back to Lamar, Arkansas. She graduated from Little Rock Central High School and Capital City Business College. She was a member of the Lamar United Methodist Church, a past member of the Faith Hope Circle, Whatsoever Sunday School Class, and United Methodist Women at the First United Methodist Church in Clarksville, past Worthy Matron - Order of the Eastern Star where she was a 50 year member of the Lamar Chapter No. 516, Grand Officer of the Eastern Star of Arkansas, volunteer and member of the Johnson Regional Medical Center Auxiliary, Methodist Mustard Seed, Johnson County Senior Activity Center, honorary life member and past president of the Women's City Club in Little Rock. She was an accomplished musician and music instructor.
She is survived by: Norma Gentry of Clarksville, Arkansas and Mary Jean Nordin and her husband, Leland, of Lamar, Arkansas; Jeremy, Dody, Macy, and Ike Pelts, and numerous family members of her late husband Jimmie Payne and the late John and Annie Miller.
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Contributed on 2/4/11 by bill060
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