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Edna E. Burgess Cantwell

Birth
Prentiss, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, USA
Death
13 Jul 2001 (aged 98)
Delhi, Richland Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Monticello, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Cantwell, 98, of Delhi, were at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 15, at Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Donnie Linson officiating. Burial followed at Herringville Church Cemetery in Monticello.

Mrs. Cantwell died Friday, July 13, at the Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Prentiss, Miss., and had lived in East Carroll Parish before moving to Tallulah where she resided for 18 years. She had lived in Delhi for the past 12 years. She was a member of Herringville Baptist Church and was a homemaker.

Survivors include three daughters. Alma Kirksey of West Monroe. Agnes McVay of Delhi and Gayle Smith and husband, Nolan, of West Monroe: one son-in-law, H. Lee Arledge of Baton Rouge; 14 grandchildren and a number of great and great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband. Walter Q. Cantwell; three daughters, Myra Octavia Arledge, Nina Louise Prince and Norma Lee Cantwell; three sons-in-law, the Rev. Billy Kirksey, Burin Lee McVay and Peter S. Prince.

Nephews served as pallbearers.

Published in The Tallulah Madison Journal (LA), July 18, 2001
Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Cantwell, 98, of Delhi, were at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 15, at Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Donnie Linson officiating. Burial followed at Herringville Church Cemetery in Monticello.

Mrs. Cantwell died Friday, July 13, at the Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Prentiss, Miss., and had lived in East Carroll Parish before moving to Tallulah where she resided for 18 years. She had lived in Delhi for the past 12 years. She was a member of Herringville Baptist Church and was a homemaker.

Survivors include three daughters. Alma Kirksey of West Monroe. Agnes McVay of Delhi and Gayle Smith and husband, Nolan, of West Monroe: one son-in-law, H. Lee Arledge of Baton Rouge; 14 grandchildren and a number of great and great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband. Walter Q. Cantwell; three daughters, Myra Octavia Arledge, Nina Louise Prince and Norma Lee Cantwell; three sons-in-law, the Rev. Billy Kirksey, Burin Lee McVay and Peter S. Prince.

Nephews served as pallbearers.

Published in The Tallulah Madison Journal (LA), July 18, 2001


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132641957/edna_e-cantwell: accessed ), memorial page for Edna E. Burgess Cantwell (14 May 1903–13 Jul 2001), Find a Grave Memorial ID 132641957, citing Herringville Cemetery, Monticello, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Ron Manley (contributor 46788603).