Submitted by: Dan Rich

Emma L. Peppers

June 7, 1910 - Feb. 8, 1999

South Bend Tribune 2/11/1999

Emma L. (Chapman) Peppers, 88, of Bell Street, South Bend, Ind., died Monday in Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center. Emma was born on June 7, 1910 in Covington, Tenn. and had lived in South Bend most of her life.

On Nov. 26, 1927 in Covington, she married Rufus ''Pa'' Peppers, who died on Aug. 15, 1984. She is survived by five daughters, Dora Jeanne Ceccanese of Fort Wayne, Ind., Kathryn Hoggard of Buchanan, Tenn., Dorothy Mickey of Vandalia, Mich., Lorraine Weiss and Erma Riedel, both of Niles, Mich.; six sons, Rufus Peppers, Jr. of Paris, Tenn., Richard Peppers of Indianapolis, Ind., and Lee Peppers, Walter Peppers, Doyle Peppers and Larry Peppers, all of South Bend; and by 39 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren and many great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Hickey Funeral Home, 17131 Cleveland Road with the Rev. Donald MacMillan, pastor of Mayflower Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.