Emma Lee Elmore was born September 21, 1939 in Logan County, Arkansas and passed away on December 15, 2025 in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the age of 86. She married Herbert Elmore Sr. on April 15, 1966 in Poteau, Oklahoma. They were married for 42 years. They raised seven children together.
Emma Lee is survived by those seven children, Herbert "Buddy" Elmore, Jr. and his wife, Donna, Lynn Elmore and wife, Tammy, Cindy Dobbs and husband, Bobby, Stephanie Cooper and husband. Lynn, Lesley Elmore and wife, Teresa, Gwendolyn and husband, Rev. Daryl Miller and Keith Elmore and his wife, Michelle; Two brothers; Bill Weaver, Samuel Weaver and wife, Cathy; One sister Doris Holleman and husband Joyce; 21 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren for 62 total descendants.
She was preceded in death by her husband Rev. Herbert Elmore Sr.; One brother, Ray Weaver; Two sister in-laws, Sydney Weaver and Joyce Weaver; One grandson, Lewis Workman.
Emma Lee was a wife, mother, grandmother, friend, musician, teacher, minister, and farmer but most of all she was a Christian. She loved the Lord more than any other love and devoted her life to his service. Emma Lee was saved at 14 and never looked back. She played the piano, guitar, and accordion. She sang in church, taught Sunday School, ministered in Word and served tremendously in the altar.
Her and her husband pastored in Greenwood, Lincoln, Cove Creek, and Russellville Arkansas and Westville and Stigler, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of a pastor, wife of a pastor, and raised 4 pastors. Her children are also involved in music ministry. She was very proud of all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and loved to tell people about them and kept up with all 62.
She loved her family and loved to get together with friends and family to visit and share in each others lives. She was a tremendous cook. Her specialty was monkey bread. She also loved raising her dogs, especially Scotties.
Her great desire was that all of her loved ones be saved. Emma Lee is now waiting for her many friends and family to join her in Heaven. Some of her final words were "meet me there." In the meantime she will be missed by many.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Friday, December 19 at Westside Pentecostal Church in Huntington with burial at Huntington Cemetery under the direction of McConnell Funeral Home of Greenwood. Viewing will be Thursday from 2 – 4 p.m. at the funeral home, where the family will visit with friends from 5 – 7 p.m.
Pallbearers will be Bradley Elmore, Brendon Dobbs, Jason Cooper, Chance Cooper, Laramie Cooper, Nathaniel Elmore, James Miller, II, Dakota Elmore, and Kolby Elmore.
