Edna Trester Aikin

AIKIN, TRESTER, BRITTAIN, EIVINS, THOMAS, BLAIR, BITTINGER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/28/2006 at 09:29:37

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 26, 1998

EDNA AIKIN, Marshalltown

Edna Aikin, 90, of Marshalltown died April 15, 1998, at Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center.

Memorial services were held April 18 at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses with Wayne Christensen officiating, following cremation rites at Pursel-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory in Marshalltown. Burial of the cremains wil be at 4 p.m. Sept. 5 at Winterset Cemetery with the Rev. Jonathan Gaul of Winterset First United Methodist Church officiating.

Edna Aikin was born Jan. 16, 1908, in Madison County to Edwin and Mary Alice (Brittain) Trester. She was raised and educated in Winterset and Buffalo Lake, Minn. She married Ray Aikin April 11, 1925, in Winterset. They moved to Marshalltown in 1957, and both worked at the Iowa Veterans Home for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sons, five brothers, three sisters, one grandson and one great-grandaughter.

She is survived by three daughters, Corinne Eivins of Marshalltown, Florence Thomas (husband Jack) of Winterset and Margaret Blair (husband Charles) of Macksburg; one son, Keith of Marshalltown; a daughter-in-law, Shirley Aikin Bittinger of Winterset; 16 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.