Edith Essex

ESSEX, MCGILL

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 12/19/2008 at 05:53:37

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal May 19, 2005

EDITH ESSEX
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Edith Essex, 88, of Muscatine, died Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at her home.
Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 20, 2004, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Reverend Ted Landers of Calvary Church will officiate. An honorary bearer will be Susan Morris. Casket bearers will be John Crook Jr., Ace Morris, Earl McGill, Rick McGill, Gerald Essex and Brian Yerington. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.

Edith was born on June 17, 1916, in Grandview, the daughter of John Lee and Jesse Belle Anthony McGill. She married Robert L. "Bob" Essex on March 2, 1935, in Muscatine. He preceded her in death.

She worked at H.J. Heinz and the Ceylon Plant in Muscatine. She was a member of the Lady Auxiliary of the Moose Lodge.

Survivors include one son, Robert John Essex and special friend, Pam, of Tumwater, Washington; two daughters, Patricia Jean Duffield and husband, Myles, of Clovis, New Mexico, and Karen Lee Crook and husband, John, of Muscatine; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and two great great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1992, one sister and three brothers.