Mrs. Edna Anderson, 79, of Mattoon, died at 9:20 a.m. today in the Oakwood Convalescent Home, Charleston, where she had been a resident a year.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Friday at the Schilling Funeral Home with Rev. Meredith Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Anderson was born June 6, 1886, near Altamont, a daughter of Jessie and Myra Gordon Barr. Her husband, Walter Anderson died in 1948.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Titus, Mattoon; a foster daughter, Mrs. Charles Sutherland, Mattoon; a foster son, Ray Anderson, Mattoon; three brothers, Asa Barr, Savanna; Noah Barr, Beecher City, and Harry Barr, Westervelt; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Christian Church.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Friday at the Schilling Funeral Home with Rev. Meredith Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Anderson was born June 6, 1886, near Altamont, a daughter of Jessie and Myra Gordon Barr. Her husband, Walter Anderson died in 1948.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Titus, Mattoon; a foster daughter, Mrs. Charles Sutherland, Mattoon; a foster son, Ray Anderson, Mattoon; three brothers, Asa Barr, Savanna; Noah Barr, Beecher City, and Harry Barr, Westervelt; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Christian Church.
Mrs. Edna Anderson, 79, of Mattoon, died at 9:20 a.m. today in the Oakwood Convalescent Home, Charleston, where she had been a resident a year.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Friday at the Schilling Funeral Home with Rev. Meredith Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Anderson was born June 6, 1886, near Altamont, a daughter of Jessie and Myra Gordon Barr. Her husband, Walter Anderson died in 1948.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Titus, Mattoon; a foster daughter, Mrs. Charles Sutherland, Mattoon; a foster son, Ray Anderson, Mattoon; three brothers, Asa Barr, Savanna; Noah Barr, Beecher City, and Harry Barr, Westervelt; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Christian Church.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Friday at the Schilling Funeral Home with Rev. Meredith Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Anderson was born June 6, 1886, near Altamont, a daughter of Jessie and Myra Gordon Barr. Her husband, Walter Anderson died in 1948.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Titus, Mattoon; a foster daughter, Mrs. Charles Sutherland, Mattoon; a foster son, Ray Anderson, Mattoon; three brothers, Asa Barr, Savanna; Noah Barr, Beecher City, and Harry Barr, Westervelt; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Anderson was a member of the First Christian Church.
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Even though not officially my Grandmother, Edna & Walter adopted my father (their nephew) at age 3 months old and was only Grandmother I knew as Dad's real mother, Nellie Ebling-Anderson died in a tornado that hit Mattoon in May 1917
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