Edwin C. Emerson

      Edwin C. Emerson, 92, died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, at Union Park Health Services in Des Moines.

      A service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hamilton Funeral Home in Des Moines. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Ottumwa Cemetery.

      Open visitation is from 5-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

      Memorials may be made to Emerson Memorial for Archives, Area 24 of Alcoholics Anonymous, care of Hamilton Funeral Home, 605 Lyon St., Des Moines 50309.

      Mr. Emerson was born March 25, 1916, in Ottumwa, the son of Joseph and Helen Brown Emerson. He married Oma Elizabeth "June" McFarland Feb. 14, 1940, in Centerville. She died Aug. 2, 1991. He married Dorothy Van Roekel Nov. 21, 1992. She died March 4, 2004.

To see the full obituary, read the Jan. 19, 2009, Fairfield Ledger.