Emmy Jane Tittle Clinton, a fourth-generation Texan, was born on July 22, 1925, in New York City, to Dr. and Mrs. Guy Amsden Tittle. She entered into the Cloud of Witnesses on June 23, 2018. The “dash” between the year of her birth and the year of her death cannot begin to describe the full life she lived.
A few years after her birth it was discovered that she had severe hearing loss. Her parents made arrangements for her to attend Central Institute in Missouri to learn to read lips. She subsequently graduated from Highland Park High School in 1943, Hockaday Junior College in 1945, and the University of Texas at Austin in 1947, where she was an active member of Pi Beta Phi. She met Ramsey Clinton shortly after her arrival at UT, and they married in April of 1952. Their sixty-two year marriage was filled with fun, travels, zany escapades, small-town living in Burnet, Texas, and many, many years of Burnet Bulldog and Longhorn football games. Never declining an invitation, they participated in every activity possible with their three children and 14 grandchildren. Emmy lived to know and to love her 19 great-grandchildren. Ramsey went to be with the Lord on May 24, 2014. We know that Emmy could hear him calling her to join him this past week.
Emmy and Ramsey were members of Episcopal Church of the Epiphany and raised their children as followers of the Word. Their home and embrace were open to all. They both loved attending band concerts and athletic events, chaperoning trips, and cooking burgers in the backyard for Camp Longhorn counselors and community newcomers. They encouraged not only their own children but their children’s friends and provided a respite and safe haven for many. Emmy’s bridge and poker groups were also treasured guests in their home. She truly lived the Gospel for all to see. Her Mark 10 “childlike faith” was the strength of who she was. Emmy’s enthusiasm, optimism and kindness were recognized by every person she met.
Emmy was an avid football fan and other fans knew she was there when they heard her shouts of “Touchdown! Touchdown!” Burnt orange was the color that best complemented her beautiful red hair and those beautifully manicured fingers still curved quickly into a perfect “Hook ‘em, Horns.”
Following Ramsey’s death, Emmy moved to Dallas and resided at the Belmont Village. Her new friends and helpers there quickly learned what everyone else already knew: Emmy had only one response for invitations – Yes! She loved to Go, and she maintained as active a lifestyle as she could up to the very end. She attended All Saints Church every Sunday morning, and she never passed up an opportunity to do things with her children and their spouses. Proudly following in her mother’s footsteps, she was a member of The Dallas Woman’s Club and the Marianne Scruggs Garden Club. Mexican food and margaritas, wine and cheese happy hours, bidding and making a grand slam, being with her children and their friends, watching a football game, supervising ranch round-up ….these were a few of her favorite things.
Emmy was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Guy Amsden Tittle and Willola Buster Tittle, and her husband, Claude Ramsey Clinton. Survivors include her sister, Guyanne Tittle Booth; her three children, Cleveland Guy Clinton (Rita), Claudia Ramsey Clinton Jones (Philip) and Claude Ramsey Clinton, Jr. (Emily). Grandchildren include Charlotte Clinton, Cameron Clinton, Lair Jones Hughen (Justin), Cole Jones Lester (Ben), Emmy Jones Rogers (Jordan), Bess Jones Fontes, Caleb Jones (Ashley), Simeon Jones, Caroline Jones, Claude Ramsey Clinton III (Caity), Pressly Clinton Smith (Zach), Ed Eskridge (Megan), Will Eskridge (Mady) and Murphy Eskridge Moellers (Matt). Emmy was blessed with great-grandchildren Andie Jane Hughen, Wil Hughen, Hattie Hughen, Virginia Lester, John Philip Lester, Eleanor Lester, Ramsey Rogers, Margaret Rogers, Henry Fontes, Mary Miller Fontes, Ford Fontes, Mia Clinton, Piper Clinton, Lawrence Smith, Evie Eskridge, Elle Eskridge, Lily Eskridge, William Eskridge, and Edward Moeller. An extended family and many friends completed Emmy’s circle of acquaintances. The family appreciates the love and care provided throughout Emmy’s life, most definitely including all those at Belmont Village and Zale Lipshy University Hospital who provided such quality, family-like care at in her final days with us.
A Celebration of Life memorializing Emmy will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2:00 p.m. at All Saints Church (2733 Oak Lawn Avenue, Dallas). After a family burial at Lakeland Hills Cemetery near Burnet, a second service will be held at Episcopal Church of the Epiphany (601 N. Wood Street, Burnet, TX) at 10:00 a.m. Friday, June 29. In true Emmy fashion, guests are invited to share their love and fond remembrances at receptions to be held at each church after the services. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be sent to the Hill Country Community Foundation (c/o First State Bank of Burnet, PO Box 10, Burnet, TX 78611) where a scholarship is established in memory of Ramsey and Emmy Clinton. Condolences may be offered to www.clementswilcoxburnet.com. Arrangements entrusted to Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home Burnet, Texas
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