Edwin Granville Courtney was one of four children born to Granville Calvin Courtney and Bertha Alice Fuller of Wichita Kansas. His sibling were Ida, Dewey, Louise Courtney. His mother had remarried later to Charles Scott then relocated to San Diego, CA. His mother had 4 more children with Edwin step Father Charles Scott; Rose, Pearline, Richard and Charlene. By 1925 my father had remained in Kansas to finish school and lived on Aunt Mary Fullers Farm. He graduated from Danville High Sschool, in Butler Co., Kansas, then left to attend and graduate from Kansas State University in 1939. Where he met and married the love of his life in 1938 my mother Mary Jane Foster of Manhattan Kansas. Mary (my mom) was the daughter of Rev. Jesse Webster Foster and Elizabeth Cotterill of Manhattan, Kansas. Together they had 5 children who gave them 8 grandchildren. Edwin and family resided in Florida where he was working for the Civil Service as a Senior Supervisor in the Electrical Technician Division on the Naval Base at Pensacola, Fl. Retired around 1974 then moved family to Elberta, Al. After My mother (Mary) passed away Sept. 1, 1978, he move back to Pensacola and later re-married 2nd to Jean (?) no issue. He was always active in his Church, visiting the ill, helping out as a Lyman for the church he had attended, never missing a service. After Jean died he married a 3rd time to Doley Jones. After My father passed away October 4th of 1993 Edwin was interned next to my Mother, his 1st wife Mary back in Alabama.
Edwin Granville Courtney was one of four children born to Granville Calvin Courtney and Bertha Alice Fuller of Wichita Kansas. His sibling were Ida, Dewey, Louise Courtney. His mother had remarried later to Charles Scott then relocated to San Diego, CA. His mother had 4 more children with Edwin step Father Charles Scott; Rose, Pearline, Richard and Charlene. By 1925 my father had remained in Kansas to finish school and lived on Aunt Mary Fullers Farm. He graduated from Danville High Sschool, in Butler Co., Kansas, then left to attend and graduate from Kansas State University in 1939. Where he met and married the love of his life in 1938 my mother Mary Jane Foster of Manhattan Kansas. Mary (my mom) was the daughter of Rev. Jesse Webster Foster and Elizabeth Cotterill of Manhattan, Kansas. Together they had 5 children who gave them 8 grandchildren. Edwin and family resided in Florida where he was working for the Civil Service as a Senior Supervisor in the Electrical Technician Division on the Naval Base at Pensacola, Fl. Retired around 1974 then moved family to Elberta, Al. After My mother (Mary) passed away Sept. 1, 1978, he move back to Pensacola and later re-married 2nd to Jean (?) no issue. He was always active in his Church, visiting the ill, helping out as a Lyman for the church he had attended, never missing a service. After Jean died he married a 3rd time to Doley Jones. After My father passed away October 4th of 1993 Edwin was interned next to my Mother, his 1st wife Mary back in Alabama.
