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Emma Lou Patterson
1934 - 2011

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Emma Lou Patterson worked as the food service manager at Palmer Stone Elementary School for 33 years and was a long-time member of the Lions Club.  She later served on the city’s Planning Commission and was elected to the Oxford City Council in 2002 and served for two terms.  She later filled the unexpired term of the current Mayor Jerry Roseberry when he ran for mayor.


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