** The obituary in the Ephrata Review was sent in by a neighbor from where she lived in Alaska and most of it is incorrect except for her husbands and son.**
Mom was born Margaret Arlene Edwards in Manheim Lancaster county and moved to Ephrata when she was a toddler. Enid lived in Yuma and my name is wrong in the obit but I lived in Delaware. Obituaries are only as good as the stranger (or family)writing them.
Baptized Margaret Arlene Edwards.
Margaret Arlene Edwards Lumley Stiegler VandeWater
As an adult she went by Arlene.
Wife of Charles Frances VandeWater. They had no children together.
Daughter of Stephen Ditzler Edwards and Zana Irene Grove.
She grew up in Ephrata and Lititz areas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Married Dr. William Deane Lumley and had 2 children, William of Maine and Enid of California.
Married Dr. Theodore W Stiegler Jr and had one still born baby and 1 child, Lenore of Delaware.
Married Charles F VandeWater and moved to Rosamond California, later they moved to Fairbanks Alaska (Ft Wainwright) 1967, Brevard Co., Florida 1972, Palm Beach Co., Florida in 1974, North Carolina in 1979 and then Chugiak area in Alaska in 1989.
There she died and was cremated and ashes spread in the forest, we were told later.
We pray she found peace.
** The obituary in the Ephrata Review was sent in by a neighbor from where she lived in Alaska and most of it is incorrect except for her husbands and son.**
Mom was born Margaret Arlene Edwards in Manheim Lancaster county and moved to Ephrata when she was a toddler. Enid lived in Yuma and my name is wrong in the obit but I lived in Delaware. Obituaries are only as good as the stranger (or family)writing them.
Baptized Margaret Arlene Edwards.
Margaret Arlene Edwards Lumley Stiegler VandeWater
As an adult she went by Arlene.
Wife of Charles Frances VandeWater. They had no children together.
Daughter of Stephen Ditzler Edwards and Zana Irene Grove.
She grew up in Ephrata and Lititz areas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Married Dr. William Deane Lumley and had 2 children, William of Maine and Enid of California.
Married Dr. Theodore W Stiegler Jr and had one still born baby and 1 child, Lenore of Delaware.
Married Charles F VandeWater and moved to Rosamond California, later they moved to Fairbanks Alaska (Ft Wainwright) 1967, Brevard Co., Florida 1972, Palm Beach Co., Florida in 1974, North Carolina in 1979 and then Chugiak area in Alaska in 1989.
There she died and was cremated and ashes spread in the forest, we were told later.
We pray she found peace.
Family Members
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