Emmette Jo Goode Weis, 91 passed gently away at her home of 65 years in Greenville, Texas on Monday, May 19, 2014 where she had been receiving hospice care for several months. Her final days were peaceful and surrounded by the love of her family and kind, loving caregivers.
The family will receive friends at visitation from 6-8 pm on Friday, May 30, 2014 at the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home, 5100 Interstate 30, Greenville, Texas. A memorial service celebrating her life will be held the following day, at 10 am, Saturday, May 31, 2014 in the chapel at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home. Burial of her cremated remains will be in Memoryland Memorial Park in Greenville. The Rev. Dr. Larry George, formerly of Kavanaugh United Methodist Church, will officiate. Following the service, the family invites everyone to a gathering at the Dairy Manor Bed and Breakfast, 5400 U.S. 69 Business south off I30 in Greenville, where sandwiches and refreshments will be served. Bring your favorite memory to share.
Emmette Jo was born in Quinlan, Texas on August 10, 1922 to Dr. E. P. and Alph Goode. Her parents moved to Greenville when she was one year old in order for her father to set up his medical practice. She attended Greenville Senior High School where she played the drums in Gussie Nell Davis’s “Drum and Bugle” corp (a prelude to the GHS Flaming Flashes.) Following graduation from GHS in 1939, she attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas graduating in 1943 with a degree in zoology and a minor in chemistry. She received her certificate for the registry of medical technologists for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in 1944.
Emmettte Jo met her “husband-to-be” at Baylor at age 17. She eventually married Dr. C. B. Weis in her parent’s home in Greenville, Texas on March 12, 1943. At that time during World War II, her husband entered the Army Specialized Training Program for Doctors at Southwestern Medical College in Dallas. Emmette Jo worked at Parkland Hospital as a medical technologist during the time her husband attended medical school. Following medical school, Emmette Jo and her husband were stationed at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for the duration of the war. Following the end of the war, Emmette Jo and C. B. settled in Greenville, TX where her husband took over Emmette Jo’s father’s medical practice upon his retirement.
Emmette Jo was a consummate homemaker raising three children, Charles, Joe and Anne. After her children left the family home for college, she worked in her husband’s medical practice until his untimely death in 1984. She was a woman of quiet and dutiful faith in God and a loyal and devoted member of Kavanaugh United Methodist Church since 1952 where she taught Sunday School in the 1960s, served on numerous committees over the years, and worked in the church office before her illness caused her to cease her attendance last summer.
Surviving are her daughter, Anne Weis of Dallas; her son and daughter-in-law, Joe and Kathy Weis of Greenville; her granddaughter Alison Weis and Rob Petrus of Dallas; her grandson Phillip Weis and his wife, Wendy McElfresh of Dallas. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. and Mrs. E.P. Goode, her sister Miriam Goode Draper, her husband, Dr. C.B.Weis; and her son, Dr. Charles B. Weis, Jr.
The family wishes to express their gratitude first to Hunt Regional physicians Dr. Pierce, Dr. Hamid, Dr. Philip and Dr Usman and a special note of appreciation to Dr. Shreedhara for her kind counsel.
The family is grateful to the team of special hospice providers for their exceptional care, kindness and compassion. A very special thank you to all her private caregivers.
The family requests memorials be made to the YMCA of Greenville and Hunt County, 1915 Stanford St., Greenville, TX 75401.