AVERY COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Myrtle Ann Edwards, 13 Mar 2003 ----¤¤¤¤---- Myrtle A. Edwards Mrs. Myrtle Ann Edwards, 87, Tenth Street, Erwin, died Thursday, March 13, 2003, at Johnson City Medical Center. Mrs. Edwards was a native of Heaton, N.C., and a daughter of the late Loranza Ellis and Florence Whitehead King. She was also preceded in death by two sisters, Lois Shutak and Della Hughes. Mrs. Edwards was formerly employed as a Medical Technologist with Unicoi County Memorial Hospital and hospitals in Georgia and Florida. She was a member of Ninth Street Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Jeannette Daye and Larry Steven McCarty, Knoxville; a brother, John Frank King, Elizabethton; three sisters, Iva Shell, Elizabethton, Stella Cook, Avery County, N.C., and Viola Baker, Shell Creek; and four grandchildren and spouses, Timothy Lee and Dorie White, Chesapeake, Va., Daniel Allan and Jill White, Erwin, Anthony Curtis and Jennifer White, Johnson City, and Angelia Jeannette and Ralph John Dittmeier, San Antonio, Texas. Fifteen great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Erwin Memorial Funeral Home, 1015 N. Main Avenue, Erwin, (423) 743-1390, is in charge. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------