Emma Louise Arnold^[1]

1885 - 1986  (101 years)

• Name	Emma Louise Arnold  [2]
  Birth	1885	Bethel, VT   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1986	Hanover, NH   [2]
  Burial	Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence Co., RI   [2]
  Person ID	I40582	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Fred Arnold   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Martha White   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F56876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Norman Stanley Case,   b. 1888, Providence, Providence Co., RI d. 1958, Wakefield, RI (Age 70 years)
  Children	1. Norman Stanley Case   2. Joseph Warren Case,   b. 1921, RI d. 1944 (Age 23 years)   3. Elizabeth R. Case
  Family ID	F56875	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  DATE: 11-27-1986 PUBLICATION: Providence Journal Company EDITION: SECTION: Newspapers_&_Newswires PAGE: D-02 HANOVER, N.H. --- Emma L. Case, 101, widow of the late Col. Norman S. Case, a former three-term governor of Rhode Island, died yesterday in Hanover Terrace Health Care Center. Born in Bethel, VT., she was the daughter of the late Fred and Martha (White) Arnold. She attended Bryant & Stratton College, and was employed at the Juvenile Court in Providence until she married. Her husband, a Providence Republican, became governor in 1928 and served until 1933. The Case family then moved to Washington D.C. when Norman Case accepted an appointment to the Federal Communications Commission. The Cases were intimate friends of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the families having met when Case was governor of Rhode Island and Roosevelt governor of New York. The friendship continued in Washington, where the Cases were frequent dinner guests of the Roosevelts at the White House. The family returned to Rhode Island in 1954, settling in Wakefield. Mrs. Case was a member of various boards of hospitals and of the parent-teacher associations of Henry Barnard School and of Nathanael Greene School. She belonged to the Gaspee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women's Republican Club and the First Baptist Church of Providence. She leaves a son, Norman S. Case Jr. of Bethel, VT.; a daughter, Elizabeth Creed of St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia; 3 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery.

  
  

• Sources

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