Mrs. Lena (Brand) Edwards, 61, a native of the Dayton community, died Sunday in Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, Chicago, after an illness of three months.
Born east of Dayton, she worked for Walgreen's in Chicago for 34 years and was a member of the Robert Park Methodist church in Chicago.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Verla Rohler and Mrs. Bernice Bowers of Mulberry, Mrs. Uda Johnson of Benton Harbor, Mich., Mrs. Merlin Foresman of Lafayette route 6, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper of Los Altos, Calif., and three brothers, Rowe Brand of Lafayette, Kenneth Brand of Miami, Fla, and Max Brand of Chicago.
A son, Ray Keith Edwards, was killed in the U. S. Naval landings on Guadalcanal in World War II 20 years ago. The body was sent to Dayton.
Services were held in the Dwight R. Baker Funeral Home, Dayton, at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, with the Rev. E. Everett Grice officiating. Burial was in the Fair Haven cemetery, Mulberry.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, October 25, 1962
Born east of Dayton, she worked for Walgreen's in Chicago for 34 years and was a member of the Robert Park Methodist church in Chicago.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Verla Rohler and Mrs. Bernice Bowers of Mulberry, Mrs. Uda Johnson of Benton Harbor, Mich., Mrs. Merlin Foresman of Lafayette route 6, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper of Los Altos, Calif., and three brothers, Rowe Brand of Lafayette, Kenneth Brand of Miami, Fla, and Max Brand of Chicago.
A son, Ray Keith Edwards, was killed in the U. S. Naval landings on Guadalcanal in World War II 20 years ago. The body was sent to Dayton.
Services were held in the Dwight R. Baker Funeral Home, Dayton, at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, with the Rev. E. Everett Grice officiating. Burial was in the Fair Haven cemetery, Mulberry.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, October 25, 1962
Mrs. Lena (Brand) Edwards, 61, a native of the Dayton community, died Sunday in Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, Chicago, after an illness of three months.
Born east of Dayton, she worked for Walgreen's in Chicago for 34 years and was a member of the Robert Park Methodist church in Chicago.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Verla Rohler and Mrs. Bernice Bowers of Mulberry, Mrs. Uda Johnson of Benton Harbor, Mich., Mrs. Merlin Foresman of Lafayette route 6, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper of Los Altos, Calif., and three brothers, Rowe Brand of Lafayette, Kenneth Brand of Miami, Fla, and Max Brand of Chicago.
A son, Ray Keith Edwards, was killed in the U. S. Naval landings on Guadalcanal in World War II 20 years ago. The body was sent to Dayton.
Services were held in the Dwight R. Baker Funeral Home, Dayton, at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, with the Rev. E. Everett Grice officiating. Burial was in the Fair Haven cemetery, Mulberry.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, October 25, 1962
Born east of Dayton, she worked for Walgreen's in Chicago for 34 years and was a member of the Robert Park Methodist church in Chicago.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Verla Rohler and Mrs. Bernice Bowers of Mulberry, Mrs. Uda Johnson of Benton Harbor, Mich., Mrs. Merlin Foresman of Lafayette route 6, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper of Los Altos, Calif., and three brothers, Rowe Brand of Lafayette, Kenneth Brand of Miami, Fla, and Max Brand of Chicago.
A son, Ray Keith Edwards, was killed in the U. S. Naval landings on Guadalcanal in World War II 20 years ago. The body was sent to Dayton.
Services were held in the Dwight R. Baker Funeral Home, Dayton, at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, with the Rev. E. Everett Grice officiating. Burial was in the Fair Haven cemetery, Mulberry.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, October 25, 1962
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