January 11, 1933 ~ March 21, 2025 (age 92)
Services for Emma Lou Chumney, 92, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 27, 2025, at the Lacy Funeral Home Chapel with Chance Yankie officiating. Burial will follow at West End Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at Lacy Funeral Home.
Lou was born in Hamilton County, Texas, January 11, 1933, to Elmo and Cora Mildred (Williams) Newsom. She married Carl Van Chumney. He preceded her in death on February 1, 2018.
Lou worked as a Seed Analyst for the Texas Department of Agriculture for more than 20 years and became a homemaker after retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Lou loved to cook, sew, and spend time with her family, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Lou was hands on in supporting her husband in everything he did from teaching, entertaining, to woodworking. There was no task she was not willing to do, no matter how tedious it might be.
Survivors include her daughters, Karleece Nowlin of Fort Worth, Texas, Valiene Bullinger and husband, Dale, of Haskell, Texas, and LaNell Whitaker and husband, Steve, of Hart, Texas; grandchildren, Julie & Kyle Holloway of Pilot Point, Texas, Kelly Reesor of Gainesville, Texas, Ross Bullinger & Tracy of Rochester, Texas, Whit & Kaimi Whitaker of Lubbock, Texas, Will & Hannah Whitaker of Shallowater, Texas, Brooke Bullinger of Haskell, Texas, and Mikala Whitaker of Braselton, Georgia; great-grandchildren, Molly Holloway, Caleb Holloway, Grant Reesor, Wriggs Whitaker, Wren Whitaker, and Riley Whitaker; sister, Sue Kopp and husband, Larry, of Pottsville, Texas; sister-in-law, Jeanne Tallent of Moody, Texas; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl Chumney, and her brothers, Billy Newsom and Charles Newsom.
Memorials may be made to Grace Place Ministries, First Baptist Church, PO Box 124, Stephenville, TX 76401, or support her granddaughter, Brooke Bullinger’s mission work with The Navigators, PO Box 6079, Albert Lea, MN 56007-6679, www.navigators.org/staff/23833775
I got to know Lou when she enrolled her kids in 4-H. She and Carl were a delight to know and I so enjoyed working with their girls. I miss all of them and hate that I can’t get there for the funeral Carl and Lou were active adult leaders in 4-H and helped our program grow They were instrumental in fund raising with their BBQ.