Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Winson 194?
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Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 July 9, 2006, 1:52 pm

Ennis Daily News  
From Scrapbook of Helen Louis Whitfill Fowler

(Date not on article)  WW II

Winson Edwards, Ennis Born Man, Lost His Life
While on Duty in USNavy

Ship Destroyed in Storm off New Foundland Coast

Mrs. George P. Hines has received word that her nephew, Winson A. Edwards, lost
his life when the USS Pollux was destroyed in a storm off the coast of
Newfoundland.

Winson was born July 29, 1917, son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Edwards. After his
mother's death in 1924, he was reared by his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Barkley, now of Beaumont.  He graduated from Irran high school and attended
NTSTC at Denton one year. He then joined the navy and seved two years with the
U.S. Asiatic Fleet in China. When he was enlisted  for his second term he was
sent to Norfolk, VA and was assigned to the USS Pollux. He was an electrician
mate,  first class.

He was a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Lindle. He is survived by his
father, Taylor Edwards of San Diego, CA, and two sisters, Miss Dorothy Edwards
of Galveston, and Mrs. Dubose Dobson of Texarkana, his aunts, Mrs. D.G. Barkley
of Beaumont, Mrs. George P. Hines of Alsdorf, and uncles, Claude and Charlie
Lindle of Alma, Joe Lindle of San Angelo, and Capt Herbet A. Lindle of Ft.
Bragg, NC.

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