EDWARDS Funeral Home, Tingley

EDWARDS, RICHARDS, VARNER, WILSON, WATSON, ARMSTRONG, JONES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/24/2011 at 00:10:14

Tingley Centennial: 1883 ~ 1983

EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME

In the early 1900's, all funerals were held in the home of the deceased. One can imagine the procession of horses and buggies following the horse-drawn hearse to the cemetery.

After Mr. EDWARDS' death in 1947, the EDWARDS Undertaking business was continued under the same name with Paul VARNER [(1916-1981)] of Diagonal as the mortician and funeral director. Lyndon RICHARDS had assisted Mr. EDWARDS for several years and continued to serve as assistant director until 1951. The funeral home is presently owned by WILSON and WATSON [2011, Watson-Armstrong].

SOURCE: Tingley, Iowa Centennial: 1883 - 1983. Pp. 48-40. PSI, Inc. Belmond IA. 1983.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, September of 2011

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2011

PHOTO: Courtesy of Flo McClosky Burbridge
Howard Edwards and Jess Jones with Horse-Drawn Hearse

EDWARDS Funeral Home, Tingley
 

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