Emma Lenore Work Tucker

Funeral services for Emma Lenore Work Tucker, 87, of Kilgore will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 28, 2019 at the Increase Church of White Oak under the direction of Croley Funeral Home of Gladewater. Interment will follow services at the Old White Oak Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. at Croley Funeral Home. Mrs. Tucker passed away Sunday, December 22, 2019, in Kilgore.

Lenore was born December 1, 1932 in Clegg, Texas to the late Wardie Ancel Work and Mary Ann Smith Work; one of eleven children. She was a retired bookkeeper after many years of service. Lenore was devoted to the Lord and a long time active member of the White Oak Assembly of God. She enjoyed working in the yard, needle work and quilting. Lenore will be remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

She is survived by her two daughters Gaynelle Tucker Eckstadt and husband Robbie of Kilgore and Connie Faye Platt and husband Terry of Kilgore; son Robert Ancel Tucker of Tulsa, OK; eight grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren and another blessing soon to arrive as well as many other loving family and friends.

Mrs. Tucker is preceded in death by her husband Robert Allen Tucker, her parents, five sisters and five brothers.