Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Essie Mae Woolard April 1, 1983
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The Virginian-Pilot/The Ledger-Star, Sunday, April 3, 1983

NORFOLK - Essie M. Edwards of 2224 Courtney Ave., a native of Martin County, N.C.,
and the wife of Johnnie Edwards, died Friday in a hospital.

She was a member of New St. Mark's Baptist Church and its Senior Usher Board and
Missionary Society and a former member of its Senior Choir. She was a member also of
Miriam Tents, 13.

Other survivors include three daughters, Gayneal Parris of Virginia Beach and Frena
Edwards and Stephanie Edwards of Norfolk; two sons, James Edwards and Woolard
Edwards of Norfolk; two sisters, Annie L. Wallace of Everetts, N.C., and Alice
Woolard of Williamston, N.C.; three brothers, John T. Woolard of Plymouth, N.C.,
Robert R. Woolard of Alexandria and James Woolward of Norfolk; and two
grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in New St. Mark's Baptist Church by
the Rev. C.W. Tyson. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. A wake service will be held
from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday in Graves Funeral Home. The body will be placed in the
church at 10 a.m. The family will be at her home.

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