Emma Schoate Siler, 73, of Riviera Beach, Fla., passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She was born Oct. 27, 1940 in Ooltewah, Tennessee to the late Jess Schoate and Viola Childs Schoate. Mrs. Siler retired as owner and interior designer of Em Siler Antiques and was a member of Christian Fellowship Church in Evansville, Ind.
Survivors include her husband, Paul Ronald Siler of Riviera Beach, Fla.; and one sister, Judy Stinnett and her husband, Tom, of Huntsville, Ala.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 20, at Miller-Schapmire Funeral Home in Hartford, Ky., with Pastor David Neidnagle of Christian Fellowship Church officiating. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. until the time of the service on Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Sunnyside Cemetery in Beaver Dam, Ky.
The family request expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to MD Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, Texas, 77210-4486 or www.mdanderson.org/gifts.