DE GRUY - Of 431 Bonnebel Boulevard, Metairie, on Saturday, January 5, 1946, at 6:30 o'clock p.m., EMILY (TOOTSIE) MELANCON, beloved wife of Edwin J. DeGruy, mother of Mary Agnes, Roger, Edwina, and Norma DeGruy; sister of Mrs. P. J. Vedros of Gramercy, La., Mrs. J. T. Miller of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Lucian Morages, Mrs. Wiltz Duhe, Jr., Philip J. and Lester Melancon; aged 43 years; a native of Lutcher, La., and a resident of Metairie for the past four years. Relatives and friends of the family, also employes of New Orleans Public Service, are invited to attend the funeral Monday, January 7, 1946 at 9:30 o'clock a.m. from the auxilary funeral home of Jacob Schoen & Son, 3827 Canal St., at North Scott with requiem mass at St. Catherine of Sienna Church. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery No 3. New Orleans Public Library Times Picayune Newspaper January 6, 1946, p8, c3 Helen Kendrick