McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    	MAGGIE LEE EDWARDS

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::Broken Bow Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

March 17, 1938

FUNERAL RITES HELD WEDNESDAY FOR MRS. MAGGIE LEE EDWARDS

Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church here Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 for Mrs. Maggie Lee Edwards who died at a Paris, Texas
Sanitarium Tuesday morning at 12:15 following an illness of several months
duration with sinus trouble and complications following Influenza.  Rev.
R.R. Craig, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Idabel conducted the
services.

Burial was made in the Broken Bow Cemetery under the direction of the Smith
Funeral Home of Broken Bow.

Surviving are her husband, Earl Edwards; daughter, Norma Jo Orrell; her
mother, Mrs. J.D. Tolleson; one brother, Dee Tolleson; one sister, Mrs.
Bill Caffee, Longview, Texas; two uncles, Otto Tolleson and Austin Tolleson;
one aunt, Mrs. Ora Graham and other relatives.

The deceased was reared in Broken Bow and finished high school here in 1924.
Later she attended Lam Te Beauty College in Oklahoma City where she received
a certificate and license to operate a beauty shop.  Since that time she
has been employed in this work in Broken Bow, first as an operator in the
Callaham Beauty Shop and later purchased equipment and established a shop
of her own, the Edwards Beauty Shop.  She was assisted in this work by her
husband, Earl Edwards.
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