Rogers Co. Obit for: Edna Reed (Emery) Towne ************************************************************************ http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogers/rogers.htm Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives Date: 11/13/2002 by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ 11/05/2002 Edna Reed (Emery) Towne Funeral service for Edna Reed Towne will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2002 at the Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Chapel. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Edna died Saturday evening, Nov. 2, at Pheasant Run Residential Home, Claremore, at the age of 94. The daughter of William and Sarah Pointer Emery was born Sept. 26, 1908, in Springfield, Mo. At the age of 9, the family moved to Rogers County, where she attended Justus schools. She married Wilburn J. Reed on Dec. 22, 1928 and they were married 34 years before he passed away in 1962. In 1964, Edna married Bill Towne and they were married 24 years before he died in 1988. Edna was a homemaker, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She loved to make quilts, fish, travel and be with her family and loved ones. Edna is preceded in death by her husbands, Wilburn J. Reed and Bill Towne; brothers, Dude, Don and Willy; sisters, Mary, Nannie and Myrtle; grandchildren, Donna Reed, Joe Wayne Cooper and Rusty Reed; and stepson, Harvey Towne. She is survived by her children, W.J. Reed and wife, Virginia, Leroy Reed and wife, Mary, Jerry Reed and wife, Linda, all of Claremore, Ruth Cooper and husband, Lindy of Syracuse, Kan., and Margie Jones and husband Dallas of Claremore; stepchildren, Billie Towne of Chelsea, Tommy Towne of Albuquerque, N.M., Trinia Lacquer of Florida and Jeannie Robertson of Oklahoma City and their families; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren ************************************************************************* Transcribed from the Claremore Progess Newspaper, we sincerely thank them for allowing us to post these obits on the Rogers Co., OK USGenwebpages http://www.claremoreprogress.com/ *************************************************************************