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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.

Family/Spouse: Norman Stanley Case. Norman (son of John W. Case and Louise Maria White) was born in 1888 in Providence, Providence Co., RI; died in 1958 in Wakefield, RI; was buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence Co., RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]