Edith Rincon
September 15, 1911 - February 14, 2015
Edith Ball Rincon died on Valentines Day, February 14, 2015, in Houston, Texas at the age of 103. She was born on September 15, 1911 in Nursery, Victoria County, Texas to Nelson Ernest and Lou Emaline Reid Ball. She was married to Frank Rincon on September 17, 1931, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Victoria, Texas. They celebrated almost 38 years of marriage before he died in April 1969.
From an original family of ten, she is survived by one brother, Nelson Ball of Lufkin, Texas. She is also survived by her five children: E. Elizabeth Rincon, Frank A. Rincon, Robert E. Rincon (Diana), Perrin Martin R. Rincon (Kathleen), and Karen E. Jackson (Ed). She is also survived by 11 living grandchildren (1 grandson is deceased), 18 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren.
Her children, and each one of their families, were especially close to her heart, always on her mind. She loved them very dearly and prayed for them consistently and fervently. There was a strong love-bond in the family of Miss Edith and Frank. She also had many, many friends and neighbors who claimed her as their own “Grandma” or “ Mama” or “Mama Edith”; to some she was lovingly called “Miss Edith”. During her long, full lifetime she touched countless lives with her love, prayers, concern for them, Godly wisdom and kind deeds.
Miss Edith was an adventurous and independent soul, not afraid of change, and quite bold. She has lived in many places. When she was 12 years old, her family left Victoria by car to move to California. When they got to San Angelo, Texas, California closed its borders to all comers because hoof-and-mouth disease had broken out. Her family decided to stay in San Angelo and that's where Miss Edith was brought up. When grown, she returned to Victoria where her older sister Bess and brother-in-law Bill Stafford lived, in order to find work. There Miss Edith met her husband Frank. They moved to Corpus Christi in 1937, again to find work. Years later, after she was widowed and her last child had left home, she moved to George West, Texas; then to Houston, Texas; then to Independence, Missouri; then to Dallas Texas (CFNI school); then to Guatemala (missionary work); and finally, her last move to her final home in Houston about 25 years ago. Except for Guatemala and Dallas, in each place she lived she bought (and later sold) a home. She believed in investing in a home and could not tolerate just paying rent!
She was always eager to learn something new, either from others, from teaching herself from written instructions, or figuring out on her own how something worked. Many times it was out of necessity that she learned to do something; or else do without. She wanted to better herself, her family, and her circumstances. Though they were barely making ends meet, she and her husband Frank found ways to honor their parents, helping them and any siblings as best they could in times of need. People knew they could reach out to them for wise counsel; then after Frank’s death, receive it from her.
God blessed her in so many ways. Although she only finished 8th grade and then had to go to work, a Methodist Sunday School class surprised her with a 6-month full scholarship to a business college in San Angelo, where she lived with her family. She did not attend that church, and this gift from God was totally unexpected. It was at that college she learned the business skills of shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, etc. which thrust her into another dimension of earning abilities. Throughout the rest of her business life she used these skills.
She worked at various jobs: As a teenager in San Angelo she delivered telegrams for Western Union, walking everywhere. In Corpus Christi after her marriage she worked as secretary and bookkeeper: at a men’s clothing store, at a nice jewelry store (promoted to Credit Manager), at a Railway Express Agency, at a wholesale lumber yard (where she became expert at figuring lumber yardages), at the Texas State Commission for the Blind, and at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Everywhere she went, she used both secretarial and bookkeeping skills and made them even sharper. While still working, she earned her G.E.D. and took some classes at Del Mar Community College. She absolutely loved the challenge of learning more and making new friends while earning good grades!
At age 79 she graduated from a missionary school, Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. During her stay there, she took a class on archeological Biblical digs in Israel, returning home through Egypt. The courses at school were not easy but she kept steady, even going early to prayer each morning. Young students told her, “Miss Edith, I just want to give up but when I see you at your age, I encourage myself that if you can do it, I can, too.” In fact, she was so well-known and well-liked that at graduation she got a spontaneous standing ovation from the student body. She ministered one-on-one many times; her wise and kind words were a spark that changed lives. The day after graduating, she and about 4 other graduates took off for Guatemala, driving through Mexico. She drove her own car and stayed a whole year helping them in their missionary work with needy people.
Miss Edith was gifted with a quick and inquiring mind, an upbeat attitude and lots of commonsense. She looked to her Savior Jesus in all matters, believing that God has many blessings for us and that He does answer prayer. Some of her many and varied talents included, but were not limited to, gardening, sewing, quilting, painting and wallpapering, canning her homegrown vegetables and meat, making homemade pies to sell at a restaurant, making fancy drapes and bedspreads for an exclusive high-end decorating store, teaching the Bible, serving at least one term on a Grand Jury. Whatever she put her hand to, she always ended up with high-quality, long-lasting, beautiful results, and people who prized her friendship. She took pride in doing a good job at whatever she set her hand to.
While living in Missouri, Miss Edith and her daughter Karen took painting classes and produced some beautiful pictures. Besides ministering to people on a one-to-one basis using the Godly principles of the Bible, in her later years in Houston she and her daughter Elizabeth again took up oil painting at a local community center, where they had a circle of friends who were like family. Miss Edith enjoyed it immensely and painted a lot of beautiful paintings. She was very talented. Decades before that, she had taken classes on drawing portraits in pastels and really did a super job of catching a person's likeness.
All her life, Miss Edith deeply loved her Lord Jesus Christ, and her favorite expression was, “We have a GOOD God!!!” She would sing songs about Jesus to others and speak of Him and His love and goodness. Her life was full of the love of Jesus and she was an inspiration everywhere she went.
She was a prayer warrior, praying daily and consistently. At several churches, she headed the prayer team for daily prayer; it was between her and her Lord Jesus, so she was not discouraged when others could not come and she would be praying alone that day. In the 1970's she was part of the team who answered prayer phone lines for the Local 700 Club when they had an office in Houston. At night the phone line would be transferred to your home if you were on call. When it was her turn and a call came in, she could be heard answering, “Praise the Lord! This is the 700 Club. How can I pray for you?” Her daughter Elizabeth and another roommate would hear her praying and they learned to pray by her example. What a wonderful way to learn! While living in Missouri she continued as a prayer counselor with their Local 700 Club. Our Miss Edith will surely be missed but her inspiration and influence goes on to the next generation. It's so true! “We have a GOOD God!!!”
Miss Edith's pastor, Apostle Daniel Peters of Victory Life Fellowship, Houston, Texas, will be officiating at her Memorial.
(No flowers, please.)
September 15, 1911 - February 14, 2015
Edith Ball Rincon died on Valentines Day, February 14, 2015, in Houston, Texas at the age of 103. She was born on September 15, 1911 in Nursery, Victoria County, Texas to Nelson Ernest and Lou Emaline Reid Ball. She was married to Frank Rincon on September 17, 1931, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Victoria, Texas. They celebrated almost 38 years of marriage before he died in April 1969.
From an original family of ten, she is survived by one brother, Nelson Ball of Lufkin, Texas. She is also survived by her five children: E. Elizabeth Rincon, Frank A. Rincon, Robert E. Rincon (Diana), Perrin Martin R. Rincon (Kathleen), and Karen E. Jackson (Ed). She is also survived by 11 living grandchildren (1 grandson is deceased), 18 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren.
Her children, and each one of their families, were especially close to her heart, always on her mind. She loved them very dearly and prayed for them consistently and fervently. There was a strong love-bond in the family of Miss Edith and Frank. She also had many, many friends and neighbors who claimed her as their own “Grandma” or “ Mama” or “Mama Edith”; to some she was lovingly called “Miss Edith”. During her long, full lifetime she touched countless lives with her love, prayers, concern for them, Godly wisdom and kind deeds.
Miss Edith was an adventurous and independent soul, not afraid of change, and quite bold. She has lived in many places. When she was 12 years old, her family left Victoria by car to move to California. When they got to San Angelo, Texas, California closed its borders to all comers because hoof-and-mouth disease had broken out. Her family decided to stay in San Angelo and that's where Miss Edith was brought up. When grown, she returned to Victoria where her older sister Bess and brother-in-law Bill Stafford lived, in order to find work. There Miss Edith met her husband Frank. They moved to Corpus Christi in 1937, again to find work. Years later, after she was widowed and her last child had left home, she moved to George West, Texas; then to Houston, Texas; then to Independence, Missouri; then to Dallas Texas (CFNI school); then to Guatemala (missionary work); and finally, her last move to her final home in Houston about 25 years ago. Except for Guatemala and Dallas, in each place she lived she bought (and later sold) a home. She believed in investing in a home and could not tolerate just paying rent!
She was always eager to learn something new, either from others, from teaching herself from written instructions, or figuring out on her own how something worked. Many times it was out of necessity that she learned to do something; or else do without. She wanted to better herself, her family, and her circumstances. Though they were barely making ends meet, she and her husband Frank found ways to honor their parents, helping them and any siblings as best they could in times of need. People knew they could reach out to them for wise counsel; then after Frank’s death, receive it from her.
God blessed her in so many ways. Although she only finished 8th grade and then had to go to work, a Methodist Sunday School class surprised her with a 6-month full scholarship to a business college in San Angelo, where she lived with her family. She did not attend that church, and this gift from God was totally unexpected. It was at that college she learned the business skills of shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, etc. which thrust her into another dimension of earning abilities. Throughout the rest of her business life she used these skills.
She worked at various jobs: As a teenager in San Angelo she delivered telegrams for Western Union, walking everywhere. In Corpus Christi after her marriage she worked as secretary and bookkeeper: at a men’s clothing store, at a nice jewelry store (promoted to Credit Manager), at a Railway Express Agency, at a wholesale lumber yard (where she became expert at figuring lumber yardages), at the Texas State Commission for the Blind, and at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Everywhere she went, she used both secretarial and bookkeeping skills and made them even sharper. While still working, she earned her G.E.D. and took some classes at Del Mar Community College. She absolutely loved the challenge of learning more and making new friends while earning good grades!
At age 79 she graduated from a missionary school, Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. During her stay there, she took a class on archeological Biblical digs in Israel, returning home through Egypt. The courses at school were not easy but she kept steady, even going early to prayer each morning. Young students told her, “Miss Edith, I just want to give up but when I see you at your age, I encourage myself that if you can do it, I can, too.” In fact, she was so well-known and well-liked that at graduation she got a spontaneous standing ovation from the student body. She ministered one-on-one many times; her wise and kind words were a spark that changed lives. The day after graduating, she and about 4 other graduates took off for Guatemala, driving through Mexico. She drove her own car and stayed a whole year helping them in their missionary work with needy people.
Miss Edith was gifted with a quick and inquiring mind, an upbeat attitude and lots of commonsense. She looked to her Savior Jesus in all matters, believing that God has many blessings for us and that He does answer prayer. Some of her many and varied talents included, but were not limited to, gardening, sewing, quilting, painting and wallpapering, canning her homegrown vegetables and meat, making homemade pies to sell at a restaurant, making fancy drapes and bedspreads for an exclusive high-end decorating store, teaching the Bible, serving at least one term on a Grand Jury. Whatever she put her hand to, she always ended up with high-quality, long-lasting, beautiful results, and people who prized her friendship. She took pride in doing a good job at whatever she set her hand to.
While living in Missouri, Miss Edith and her daughter Karen took painting classes and produced some beautiful pictures. Besides ministering to people on a one-to-one basis using the Godly principles of the Bible, in her later years in Houston she and her daughter Elizabeth again took up oil painting at a local community center, where they had a circle of friends who were like family. Miss Edith enjoyed it immensely and painted a lot of beautiful paintings. She was very talented. Decades before that, she had taken classes on drawing portraits in pastels and really did a super job of catching a person's likeness.
All her life, Miss Edith deeply loved her Lord Jesus Christ, and her favorite expression was, “We have a GOOD God!!!” She would sing songs about Jesus to others and speak of Him and His love and goodness. Her life was full of the love of Jesus and she was an inspiration everywhere she went.
She was a prayer warrior, praying daily and consistently. At several churches, she headed the prayer team for daily prayer; it was between her and her Lord Jesus, so she was not discouraged when others could not come and she would be praying alone that day. In the 1970's she was part of the team who answered prayer phone lines for the Local 700 Club when they had an office in Houston. At night the phone line would be transferred to your home if you were on call. When it was her turn and a call came in, she could be heard answering, “Praise the Lord! This is the 700 Club. How can I pray for you?” Her daughter Elizabeth and another roommate would hear her praying and they learned to pray by her example. What a wonderful way to learn! While living in Missouri she continued as a prayer counselor with their Local 700 Club. Our Miss Edith will surely be missed but her inspiration and influence goes on to the next generation. It's so true! “We have a GOOD God!!!”
Miss Edith's pastor, Apostle Daniel Peters of Victory Life Fellowship, Houston, Texas, will be officiating at her Memorial.
(No flowers, please.)
Edith Rincon
September 15, 1911 - February 14, 2015
Edith Ball Rincon died on Valentines Day, February 14, 2015, in Houston, Texas at the age of 103. She was born on September 15, 1911 in Nursery, Victoria County, Texas to Nelson Ernest and Lou Emaline Reid Ball. She was married to Frank Rincon on September 17, 1931, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Victoria, Texas. They celebrated almost 38 years of marriage before he died in April 1969.
From an original family of ten, she is survived by one brother, Nelson Ball of Lufkin, Texas. She is also survived by her five children: E. Elizabeth Rincon, Frank A. Rincon, Robert E. Rincon (Diana), Perrin Martin R. Rincon (Kathleen), and Karen E. Jackson (Ed). She is also survived by 11 living grandchildren (1 grandson is deceased), 18 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren.
Her children, and each one of their families, were especially close to her heart, always on her mind. She loved them very dearly and prayed for them consistently and fervently. There was a strong love-bond in the family of Miss Edith and Frank. She also had many, many friends and neighbors who claimed her as their own “Grandma” or “ Mama” or “Mama Edith”; to some she was lovingly called “Miss Edith”. During her long, full lifetime she touched countless lives with her love, prayers, concern for them, Godly wisdom and kind deeds.
Miss Edith was an adventurous and independent soul, not afraid of change, and quite bold. She has lived in many places. When she was 12 years old, her family left Victoria by car to move to California. When they got to San Angelo, Texas, California closed its borders to all comers because hoof-and-mouth disease had broken out. Her family decided to stay in San Angelo and that's where Miss Edith was brought up. When grown, she returned to Victoria where her older sister Bess and brother-in-law Bill Stafford lived, in order to find work. There Miss Edith met her husband Frank. They moved to Corpus Christi in 1937, again to find work. Years later, after she was widowed and her last child had left home, she moved to George West, Texas; then to Houston, Texas; then to Independence, Missouri; then to Dallas Texas (CFNI school); then to Guatemala (missionary work); and finally, her last move to her final home in Houston about 25 years ago. Except for Guatemala and Dallas, in each place she lived she bought (and later sold) a home. She believed in investing in a home and could not tolerate just paying rent!
She was always eager to learn something new, either from others, from teaching herself from written instructions, or figuring out on her own how something worked. Many times it was out of necessity that she learned to do something; or else do without. She wanted to better herself, her family, and her circumstances. Though they were barely making ends meet, she and her husband Frank found ways to honor their parents, helping them and any siblings as best they could in times of need. People knew they could reach out to them for wise counsel; then after Frank’s death, receive it from her.
God blessed her in so many ways. Although she only finished 8th grade and then had to go to work, a Methodist Sunday School class surprised her with a 6-month full scholarship to a business college in San Angelo, where she lived with her family. She did not attend that church, and this gift from God was totally unexpected. It was at that college she learned the business skills of shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, etc. which thrust her into another dimension of earning abilities. Throughout the rest of her business life she used these skills.
She worked at various jobs: As a teenager in San Angelo she delivered telegrams for Western Union, walking everywhere. In Corpus Christi after her marriage she worked as secretary and bookkeeper: at a men’s clothing store, at a nice jewelry store (promoted to Credit Manager), at a Railway Express Agency, at a wholesale lumber yard (where she became expert at figuring lumber yardages), at the Texas State Commission for the Blind, and at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Everywhere she went, she used both secretarial and bookkeeping skills and made them even sharper. While still working, she earned her G.E.D. and took some classes at Del Mar Community College. She absolutely loved the challenge of learning more and making new friends while earning good grades!
At age 79 she graduated from a missionary school, Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. During her stay there, she took a class on archeological Biblical digs in Israel, returning home through Egypt. The courses at school were not easy but she kept steady, even going early to prayer each morning. Young students told her, “Miss Edith, I just want to give up but when I see you at your age, I encourage myself that if you can do it, I can, too.” In fact, she was so well-known and well-liked that at graduation she got a spontaneous standing ovation from the student body. She ministered one-on-one many times; her wise and kind words were a spark that changed lives. The day after graduating, she and about 4 other graduates took off for Guatemala, driving through Mexico. She drove her own car and stayed a whole year helping them in their missionary work with needy people.
Miss Edith was gifted with a quick and inquiring mind, an upbeat attitude and lots of commonsense. She looked to her Savior Jesus in all matters, believing that God has many blessings for us and that He does answer prayer. Some of her many and varied talents included, but were not limited to, gardening, sewing, quilting, painting and wallpapering, canning her homegrown vegetables and meat, making homemade pies to sell at a restaurant, making fancy drapes and bedspreads for an exclusive high-end decorating store, teaching the Bible, serving at least one term on a Grand Jury. Whatever she put her hand to, she always ended up with high-quality, long-lasting, beautiful results, and people who prized her friendship. She took pride in doing a good job at whatever she set her hand to.
While living in Missouri, Miss Edith and her daughter Karen took painting classes and produced some beautiful pictures. Besides ministering to people on a one-to-one basis using the Godly principles of the Bible, in her later years in Houston she and her daughter Elizabeth again took up oil painting at a local community center, where they had a circle of friends who were like family. Miss Edith enjoyed it immensely and painted a lot of beautiful paintings. She was very talented. Decades before that, she had taken classes on drawing portraits in pastels and really did a super job of catching a person's likeness.
All her life, Miss Edith deeply loved her Lord Jesus Christ, and her favorite expression was, “We have a GOOD God!!!” She would sing songs about Jesus to others and speak of Him and His love and goodness. Her life was full of the love of Jesus and she was an inspiration everywhere she went.
She was a prayer warrior, praying daily and consistently. At several churches, she headed the prayer team for daily prayer; it was between her and her Lord Jesus, so she was not discouraged when others could not come and she would be praying alone that day. In the 1970's she was part of the team who answered prayer phone lines for the Local 700 Club when they had an office in Houston. At night the phone line would be transferred to your home if you were on call. When it was her turn and a call came in, she could be heard answering, “Praise the Lord! This is the 700 Club. How can I pray for you?” Her daughter Elizabeth and another roommate would hear her praying and they learned to pray by her example. What a wonderful way to learn! While living in Missouri she continued as a prayer counselor with their Local 700 Club. Our Miss Edith will surely be missed but her inspiration and influence goes on to the next generation. It's so true! “We have a GOOD God!!!”
Miss Edith's pastor, Apostle Daniel Peters of Victory Life Fellowship, Houston, Texas, will be officiating at her Memorial.
(No flowers, please.)
September 15, 1911 - February 14, 2015
Edith Ball Rincon died on Valentines Day, February 14, 2015, in Houston, Texas at the age of 103. She was born on September 15, 1911 in Nursery, Victoria County, Texas to Nelson Ernest and Lou Emaline Reid Ball. She was married to Frank Rincon on September 17, 1931, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Victoria, Texas. They celebrated almost 38 years of marriage before he died in April 1969.
From an original family of ten, she is survived by one brother, Nelson Ball of Lufkin, Texas. She is also survived by her five children: E. Elizabeth Rincon, Frank A. Rincon, Robert E. Rincon (Diana), Perrin Martin R. Rincon (Kathleen), and Karen E. Jackson (Ed). She is also survived by 11 living grandchildren (1 grandson is deceased), 18 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren.
Her children, and each one of their families, were especially close to her heart, always on her mind. She loved them very dearly and prayed for them consistently and fervently. There was a strong love-bond in the family of Miss Edith and Frank. She also had many, many friends and neighbors who claimed her as their own “Grandma” or “ Mama” or “Mama Edith”; to some she was lovingly called “Miss Edith”. During her long, full lifetime she touched countless lives with her love, prayers, concern for them, Godly wisdom and kind deeds.
Miss Edith was an adventurous and independent soul, not afraid of change, and quite bold. She has lived in many places. When she was 12 years old, her family left Victoria by car to move to California. When they got to San Angelo, Texas, California closed its borders to all comers because hoof-and-mouth disease had broken out. Her family decided to stay in San Angelo and that's where Miss Edith was brought up. When grown, she returned to Victoria where her older sister Bess and brother-in-law Bill Stafford lived, in order to find work. There Miss Edith met her husband Frank. They moved to Corpus Christi in 1937, again to find work. Years later, after she was widowed and her last child had left home, she moved to George West, Texas; then to Houston, Texas; then to Independence, Missouri; then to Dallas Texas (CFNI school); then to Guatemala (missionary work); and finally, her last move to her final home in Houston about 25 years ago. Except for Guatemala and Dallas, in each place she lived she bought (and later sold) a home. She believed in investing in a home and could not tolerate just paying rent!
She was always eager to learn something new, either from others, from teaching herself from written instructions, or figuring out on her own how something worked. Many times it was out of necessity that she learned to do something; or else do without. She wanted to better herself, her family, and her circumstances. Though they were barely making ends meet, she and her husband Frank found ways to honor their parents, helping them and any siblings as best they could in times of need. People knew they could reach out to them for wise counsel; then after Frank’s death, receive it from her.
God blessed her in so many ways. Although she only finished 8th grade and then had to go to work, a Methodist Sunday School class surprised her with a 6-month full scholarship to a business college in San Angelo, where she lived with her family. She did not attend that church, and this gift from God was totally unexpected. It was at that college she learned the business skills of shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, etc. which thrust her into another dimension of earning abilities. Throughout the rest of her business life she used these skills.
She worked at various jobs: As a teenager in San Angelo she delivered telegrams for Western Union, walking everywhere. In Corpus Christi after her marriage she worked as secretary and bookkeeper: at a men’s clothing store, at a nice jewelry store (promoted to Credit Manager), at a Railway Express Agency, at a wholesale lumber yard (where she became expert at figuring lumber yardages), at the Texas State Commission for the Blind, and at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Everywhere she went, she used both secretarial and bookkeeping skills and made them even sharper. While still working, she earned her G.E.D. and took some classes at Del Mar Community College. She absolutely loved the challenge of learning more and making new friends while earning good grades!
At age 79 she graduated from a missionary school, Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas. During her stay there, she took a class on archeological Biblical digs in Israel, returning home through Egypt. The courses at school were not easy but she kept steady, even going early to prayer each morning. Young students told her, “Miss Edith, I just want to give up but when I see you at your age, I encourage myself that if you can do it, I can, too.” In fact, she was so well-known and well-liked that at graduation she got a spontaneous standing ovation from the student body. She ministered one-on-one many times; her wise and kind words were a spark that changed lives. The day after graduating, she and about 4 other graduates took off for Guatemala, driving through Mexico. She drove her own car and stayed a whole year helping them in their missionary work with needy people.
Miss Edith was gifted with a quick and inquiring mind, an upbeat attitude and lots of commonsense. She looked to her Savior Jesus in all matters, believing that God has many blessings for us and that He does answer prayer. Some of her many and varied talents included, but were not limited to, gardening, sewing, quilting, painting and wallpapering, canning her homegrown vegetables and meat, making homemade pies to sell at a restaurant, making fancy drapes and bedspreads for an exclusive high-end decorating store, teaching the Bible, serving at least one term on a Grand Jury. Whatever she put her hand to, she always ended up with high-quality, long-lasting, beautiful results, and people who prized her friendship. She took pride in doing a good job at whatever she set her hand to.
While living in Missouri, Miss Edith and her daughter Karen took painting classes and produced some beautiful pictures. Besides ministering to people on a one-to-one basis using the Godly principles of the Bible, in her later years in Houston she and her daughter Elizabeth again took up oil painting at a local community center, where they had a circle of friends who were like family. Miss Edith enjoyed it immensely and painted a lot of beautiful paintings. She was very talented. Decades before that, she had taken classes on drawing portraits in pastels and really did a super job of catching a person's likeness.
All her life, Miss Edith deeply loved her Lord Jesus Christ, and her favorite expression was, “We have a GOOD God!!!” She would sing songs about Jesus to others and speak of Him and His love and goodness. Her life was full of the love of Jesus and she was an inspiration everywhere she went.
She was a prayer warrior, praying daily and consistently. At several churches, she headed the prayer team for daily prayer; it was between her and her Lord Jesus, so she was not discouraged when others could not come and she would be praying alone that day. In the 1970's she was part of the team who answered prayer phone lines for the Local 700 Club when they had an office in Houston. At night the phone line would be transferred to your home if you were on call. When it was her turn and a call came in, she could be heard answering, “Praise the Lord! This is the 700 Club. How can I pray for you?” Her daughter Elizabeth and another roommate would hear her praying and they learned to pray by her example. What a wonderful way to learn! While living in Missouri she continued as a prayer counselor with their Local 700 Club. Our Miss Edith will surely be missed but her inspiration and influence goes on to the next generation. It's so true! “We have a GOOD God!!!”
Miss Edith's pastor, Apostle Daniel Peters of Victory Life Fellowship, Houston, Texas, will be officiating at her Memorial.
(No flowers, please.)
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