Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....EDGEMON, GEORGE BROWN November 13, 2008
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Bastrop Daily Enterprise - November 15, 2008
George Brown Edgemon 

Bastrop, La. -

Funeral services for George Brown Edgemon, age 83, are scheduled for 2 p.m. 
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at Ten Mile Baptist Church, Ten Mile, Tenn., with 
the Rev. Shane Clark officiating. Interment will follow in Edgemon Cemetery. 
Visitation will be held from 12 to 2 p.m. at the church on Wednesday. 
Visitation will also be held Sunday, November 16, 2008 from 5-8 p.m. at Golden 
Funeral Home.

Mr. Edgemon, a resident of Mer Rouge, passed away Thursday, November 13, 2008 
at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas. He was a life-long farmer, 
cotton ginner, and built cotton gins in several southern states. He was a 
veteran of the U.S. Army, having served as a paratrooper. He was a member of 
the American Legion for 63 years, and Past Commander of the American Legion 
Post #51 in Bastrop. He was a lifetime member of the Disabled American 
Veterans and a member of the Sons of the Revolution. He was an avid gardner 
and loved to fish.

Mr. Edgemon is preceded in death by his father, Kimball Edgemon; mother, Clara 
Brown Edgemon; two brothers, Cyrus Reuben Edgemon, Kimball Edgemon, Jr.; 
sister, Dorothy Edgemon Senatore; and son, George Rickey Edgemon.

He is survived by two daughters, Sheri Edgemon Young and husband Eugene of 
Sunset and Angela Edgemon Thrash and husband Keith of Kilgore, Texas; three 
sisters, Clara Belle Pickle of Ten Mile, Tenn., Alice Chapman of Ten Mile, 
Tenn. and Vivian Gail Pelham of Whitney, Texas; three grandchildren, Colby 
Brown Rabatin and wife Sarah, Hartwell Shane Young and wife Amanda and Shanari 
Young; five great grandchildren, Landon Allen Rabatin, Logan Young, Kinslee 
Young, Morgan Taylor and Lee Scott Taylor and a number of nieces, nephews, 
great nieces and great nephews.

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