Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....EDWARDS, HELEN WILDS June 21, 2010
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News Star World - June 24, 2010
HELEN WILDS EDWARDS

Mulhearn Funeral Home

Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA.

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Wilds Edwards of Monroe, will be held at 11:00 
AM Thursday, June 24, 2010, at Jesus the Good Shepherd Catholic Church with 
Msgr. Edmund Moore officiating. Interment will follow at Mulhearn Memorial 
Park Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, 
Monroe.

Mrs. Edwards died Monday, June 21, 2010, at St. Francis Medical Center after a 
lengthy illness. Mrs. Edwards was born in Monroe on May 27, 1930. She attended 
St. Matthew's Elementary and High School and went on to graduate from 
Maryville College in St. Louis, MO. She returned to Monroe after graduating 
and spent time traveling with her parents before marrying Lee Graham Edwards, 
Jr., who preceded her in death in 2004. She was a member of Jesus the Good 
Shepherd Catholic Church and the Junior League of Monroe.

She was also preceded in death by her father, Charles E. Wilds, Sr.; her 
mother, Veronica Tushaus Wilds; her brother, Dr. Charles E. Wilds, Jr.; 
sisters, Mary Ann Wilds Kynoch, Veronica Wilds Davidson, and Betty Wilds 
Davidson; a beloved niece, two nephews, and a great nephew.

Mrs. Edwards was a loving mother to six children and cherished grandmother to 
seven grandchildren, who she was dearly known as "GaGa" or "Grandmama."

Her memory will live through her daughters, Teresa Edwards Shelton and husband 
Greg of Monroe, Bridget Edwards Rabb and husband Joseph of Dallas, Elizabeth 
Edwards Myers and husband John of Monroe, and Audrey Edwards Malloy and 
husband Steve of Monroe; sons, Kevin Lee Edwards of Monroe, and Christopher 
Charles Edwards and wife Kayla of Monroe. She will be greatly missed by her 
grand-children, Lee and Brian Shelton, Natalie and Mallory Myers, Matthew and 
Michael Malloy, and Charlie Edwards. She will also live in the memory of her 
many nieces and nephews and their families, as family meant everything to her.

Pallbearers will be her nephews Drew Davidson, Edward Davidson, and her godson 
Dennis Davidson, and family friends, Robert Lauve, Charles Ellis, and Brent 
Adams.

Honorary pallbearers will be her godson Jim Bell, dear friends Sonny Bledsoe 
and George Stamper, and her nephew and godson Jim Davidson.

Memorials may be made to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Jesus 
the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Monroe.

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