Emma Bybee
Emma Bybee
July 14, 1921 ~ February 18, 2003
Emma Louise Wilson Bybee, 81, of Glasgow, died Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at the Barren County Health Care Center. A native of Breckenridge County, she was a daughter of the late Granville and Lula Kessinger Wilson and widow of the late John C. Bybee
Emma was a 1940 graduate of Breckenridge County High School and obtained her B.S. degree from Western Kentucky University and a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin. She taught school in Breckenridge County from 1941-42; worked at the Naval Ordinance Plant in Evansville from 1942-43; and served as a WAVE in the United States Navy from 1944-1945. From 1951-1961, she was employed by the University of Kentucky where she was supervisor of Home Demonstration Agents for eastern Kentucky. From 1962-1991, she was employed by the Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation as a home economist. She retired in 1991.
Mrs. Bybee was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Glasgow, where she had also served on the board. She was a charter member and a past president of Altrusa International; a 4-H Club Director for Barren County; a 50 year member of the Order of Eastern Star; member of American Home Economic Association; a past president of Kentucky Home Economists in Business Association; member and a past president of Womens Electrical Roundtable; member of Kentucky Nutritional Council; member and a past officer in AARP; listed in Who’s Who of American Women; listed in The Personalities of the South; A Kentucky Colonel; and active in many other local organizations.
Survivors include one brother, Hubert Wilson of Hardinsburg, KY; eight nieces, Ruth Schickinger and Betty McCarty of Louisville, Jean Meriweather of Olaton, Anna Francis Stinnett and Helen Fentress of Hardinsburg, Wanda Reeves of Elizabethtown, Ruth Ann Doty of White Plains and Peggy White of Harned; three nephews, Teddy Allen Morris and Phillip H. Morris of Evansville, James G. Buhel of Leitchfield; several great nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Nennie Ball and Annamae Buhel of Hardinsburg and Lorena Morris of Evansville.
Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 21, 2003, at the Hatcher & Saddler Funeral Home with burial in the Happy Valley Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. The public is invited to attend Eastern Star services at 7:00 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Alternate expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to the First United Methodist Church of Glasgow.
