Edwards, Josie Marion 1871-1928

EDWARDS, DAY

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/28/2012 at 10:21:21

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Oct. 12, 1928

GOOD WOMAN
IS MOURNED
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Mrs. E.A. Edwards Had A Large
Place in Community
Life.
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DEATH CALLED HER
ON TUESDAY EVENING
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Funeral Services Were Held From
The Home Thursday
Afternoon.
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A woman active in business, devoted to her home and interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, was lost to Grinnell when Mrs. E.A. Edwards passed away at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening after a serious illness of two weeks.

Since coming to Grinnell in 1919 Mrs. Edwards has been constantly active in the store and has done her full share in giving it the reputation of a real quality grocery. She has been interested and helpful in it and has had the co-operation of a singularly devoted and united family, in which she held her honored place. She was proud of her children and their success and was looking forward hopefully to years of prosperity and happiness when stricken by her last illness. She is sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends in Grinnell.

Josie Marion Day was born in Union County, Iowa, October 3, 1871 and died at Grinnell, Iowa, October 9, 1928, aged fifty-seven years and six days.

She was married in 1899 to E.A. Edwards. To this union four children were born: Hazle Y., Howard D., and Marie, all of whom are at home, and Ruth who preceded her in death in 1920.

She has been an active Christian since the days of her childhood and a member of the Baptist church of Grinnell since the family moved in 1919.

She was a woman of high ideals, always seeking the most worthwhile things in life for her family. She loved deeply and sacrificed everything for those she loved.

Besides her husband and three children, one stepson and one step-daughter, she leaves to mourn her loss an aged mother, four brothers, four sisters, and a great number of relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held from the home Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H.C. Rice, who paid a fitting and sympathetic tribute to the useful life which had closed. A ladies' quartet, composed of Mrs. Ed Bohsedt, Mrs. Leland Carter, Mrs. Howard Hyde and Mrs. A. E. Johnson, sang very sweetly, "Abide With Me" and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." Pall bearers were Howard Dimit, E.M. Kearney, J.G. Shifflet, C.K. Needham, Raymond Norris and C.F. Rash. Interment was in Hazelwood. Many of the business houses closed during the hour of the service as a tribute of respect to Mrs. Edwards.

The following from out of town were present at the funeral: Mrs. Mary Day, mother of Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Ella Day, Clarence Day, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Beaumont and Mrs. Jim Shade all of Creston; Mr. and Mrs. Will Edwards and Mrs. Annie Bailey of Lorimor; Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards of Villisca, Ernest Edwards, a son, and wife, of Shannon City and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Sterling of Des Moines.