Obituaries:  Elsie Tatum Edwards, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       E-363
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct. 19, 1994
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Elsie Tatum Edwards

  Funeral services for Elsie Tatum Edwards, 85, were held at 2
p.m., Friday, October 14, at Rose-Neath Chapel, Mansfield.

  Officiating the service was Dr. William Crosby, pastor of First
Baptist Church of Mansfield, and assisting was Rev. Joe Waggener,
Minister of Education at First Baptist Church of Mansfield.
Burial was in the Noble Cemetery.

  Mrs. Edwards died Wednesday, October 12, 1994, in Converse, and
was a resident of Mansfield for the past 34 years. She was a
homemaker, and a loving mother. She was an active member of First
Baptist Church of Mansfield, until it became necessary for her to
become a resident of the nursing home. She still attended church
sponsored activities at the nursing home until the time of her
death.

  Preceding her in death were her parents, Mitch and Amy Paul
Tatum; her husband, Charles Louis Edwards; a daughter, Edith
Carol Cook; a granddaughter, Carol Marie Cook; brothers, J. M.
Tatum, and Jack Tatum.

  Survivors are two sons and daughters-in-law, Don and Mildred
Edwards of Mansfield; Mac and Lucille Edwards of Mansfield; two
daughters and sons-in-law, Rita and Ed Herring of Duncan, Okla.,
Mary Alice and Ted Brasher of Mansfield; sisters, Rita Dees of
Lake Charles, Elaine Smallwood of Sulphur; brother, Paul K. Tatum
of Lake Charles; grandchildren, Donna Torr, Jerry Edwards, Linda
Hightower, Lonnie Murphy, Tommy Cook, Charles Cook, Lisa Simpson,
Randy Cook, Ronnie Herring, David Herring, Kate Herring, and
Tanya Brasher; 17 great grandchildren; and 7 great-great
grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends.