Emery Davis Spears, 75, of Hartshorne, passed away on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at his home.

Graveside services will be 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Mountain Station Cemetery Pavilion with George Spears officiating. Burial will follow.

Emery was born on September 6, 1949 in McAlester to Bert Emery and Dorothy Marie (Patterson) Spears. He married Belinda Louise Davison on November 24, 1973 in Wilburton, Oklahoma. He retired from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and was the former Executive Director of the Choctaw Nation. He enjoyed hunting and participated in competitive shooting nationally. He taught firearms classes, hunter safety classes, and conceal carry classes. He was a 32nd Degree Mason with the McAlester Scottish Rite Temple, and the Hartshorne/Haileyville Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include his wife, Belinda Louise Spears; son, Scott Christopher Spears, his wife, Stacey, granddaughter, Shaylin Lemons, her husband, Preston and their son, Steele Wayne; son, George Emery Spears, his wife, Misty, and their children, Justice Emery and Hope Smiles.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Bert and Dorothy Spears; sister, Pat and her husband, Charles Curliss.