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Emmons Meat Market, which has taken care of custom processing and game customers and served up exotic meats from its storefront on Highway 34 since 1962, will close Jan. 31.

Owner Nancy Emmons, who has run the store since the death of her husband, Dave, in 2007, said she wants to move on to different pursuits.

“I’m tired. I want to do something besides worry about everything that will go along with being in business,” she said. “I have a great grandson, and I don’t get to see him as much as I would like to.

“I want to do something different.”

The store will remain open through Jan. 31, and a steady stream of customers was buying the market’s remaining inventory Wednesday. Emmons said that she will likely offer some discounts next week.

Emmons said she had no plans to sell the facility.

“I’m just going to close up. I’m not thinking that far ahead,” she said.

Dave Emmons started the business in 1962. Emmons, who had been a butcher and game processor in the Brownsville area, focused on custom meat preparation and game processing in the early days but showed a keen instinct about expanding into new avenues.