Emma Tester

TESTER, Emma M. - Age 95, of Fenton, passed away peacefully, Saturday, March 28, 2020.  Funeral services will be held 1:00 PM Monday, March 30, 2020 at Sharp Funeral Homes, Linden Chapel, 209 E. Broad St, Linden.  Burial in Sharp Cemetery, Deerfield Township.  Visitation will be held at the funeral Home Monday from 11 AM until the time of the service.

Emma was born on January 30, 1925 in Fenton, where she had resided all her life on Bennett Lake.  Her parents were Samuel and Rose (Chambers) Rathbun.  She married Merle Tester on January 4, 1952 and they had two daughters, Joyce (Patrick) Bard and Nancy Tester; two grandchildren, Patrick and Carrie Bard; and 6 great grandchildren, Stevie, Seth, Carsen, Cayd, Dagger, and Kraton; and several nieces and nephews.  She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Merle; and sister, Anna Tester.

Emma was a devoted mother, grandmother, aunt, and an outstanding bus driver for 25 years at Linden Community Schools, retiring in 1991.  She loved driving bus and thought of every student as her own.  She loved farming with her draft horses, gardening, flowers, sewing, canning, and her dogs, and of course always being right.

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