Price, Emma Jean Walls Friday, February 26, 2021 Emma Price Beloved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, Emma Jean Walls Price was called to her heavenly home on Sunday, February 21, 2021. “Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant!” (Matthew 25:21).
Born in Chattanooga on Sept. 20, 1944, to Jimmie and Geneva Walls, Emma lived a life of faith, love and graciousness.
Emma graduated with honors in 1962 from Howard High School and was awarded an academic scholarship to Tuskegee University where she earned her honors Bachelor of Science in Biology and was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She furthered her education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, earning a Master of Science with honors in Counseling. Ms. Price dedicated forty years to the Chattanooga Public School System and Hamilton County Schools, teaching middle school science for seventeen years and serving as a middle and high school guidance counselor for twenty years. She retired twice from her alma mater, The Howard School, as she returned from her first retirement to serve as Howard’s college counselor for three years. As an educator, Ms. Price was known for being a classy, stylish dresser and inspiring and enriching the lives of generations of students that she taught and counseled at Alton Park, Orchard Knob, Hixson and The Howard School.