Edna Lee (Powell) Parrish, age 90, died Tuesday, June 21, 2011, in Mesa, Arizona.
Edna was born Sept. 16, 1920 in a log house near White Owl, South Dakota to Jefferson D. and Mary W. (Mullersman) Powell. In her teens she moved with her family to Craig County, Oklahoma where they lived in the Goldenrod School District and she graduated from Welch High School.
After completing high school, Edna moved to St. Louis where she worked in a munitions factory and took training to become a nurse during World War II. She married Frank Parrish on May 9, 1945 in Childress, Texas, and they lived in Vinita until moving to Arizona in 1957.
In Arizona, Edna worked in the office of a well-respected surgeon. Always interested in alternative medicine and natural health remedies, she later attended college and took other courses to become a doctor of nutripathy and had a practice for many years making friends and alleviating much suffering for her patients.
After retirement, Frank and Edna returned to Craig County, where they built a home on a farm southeast of Vinita. After Frank's death in 1994, Edna lived alone on the farm until she suffered a stroke in 2005. After the stroke, she returned to Arizona living in the homes of her daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter Christin.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and an older brother, Carl Powell. Survivors include: a daughter, Lois Kay and her husband George Hoxsie, of Mesa, Arizona; three granddaughters: Carmel Bozarth of Ivins, Utah; Christin Bankhead, of Mesa, Arizona and Kimberly Lofgreen of Gilbert, Arizona; and seven great-grandchildren. Also, brothers, Lloyd Powell, of rural Craig County and Ellis Powell, of Eakley, Oklahoma; sisters, Doris Miller of Vinita; Laura Dodt of Dunedin, Florida and Alice Darnell of rural Craig County.
Services will be held Saturday, June 25th at 11 a.m. at Burckhalter Funeral Home Chapel in Vinita. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery in Vinita.
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Edna was born Sept. 16, 1920 in a log house near White Owl, South Dakota to Jefferson D. and Mary W. (Mullersman) Powell. In her teens she moved with her family to Craig County, Oklahoma where they lived in the Goldenrod School District and she graduated from Welch High School.
After completing high school, Edna moved to St. Louis where she worked in a munitions factory and took training to become a nurse during World War II. She married Frank Parrish on May 9, 1945 in Childress, Texas, and they lived in Vinita until moving to Arizona in 1957.
In Arizona, Edna worked in the office of a well-respected surgeon. Always interested in alternative medicine and natural health remedies, she later attended college and took other courses to become a doctor of nutripathy and had a practice for many years making friends and alleviating much suffering for her patients.
After retirement, Frank and Edna returned to Craig County, where they built a home on a farm southeast of Vinita. After Frank's death in 1994, Edna lived alone on the farm until she suffered a stroke in 2005. After the stroke, she returned to Arizona living in the homes of her daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter Christin.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and an older brother, Carl Powell. Survivors include: a daughter, Lois Kay and her husband George Hoxsie, of Mesa, Arizona; three granddaughters: Carmel Bozarth of Ivins, Utah; Christin Bankhead, of Mesa, Arizona and Kimberly Lofgreen of Gilbert, Arizona; and seven great-grandchildren. Also, brothers, Lloyd Powell, of rural Craig County and Ellis Powell, of Eakley, Oklahoma; sisters, Doris Miller of Vinita; Laura Dodt of Dunedin, Florida and Alice Darnell of rural Craig County.
Services will be held Saturday, June 25th at 11 a.m. at Burckhalter Funeral Home Chapel in Vinita. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery in Vinita.
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Edna Lee (Powell) Parrish, age 90, died Tuesday, June 21, 2011, in Mesa, Arizona.
Edna was born Sept. 16, 1920 in a log house near White Owl, South Dakota to Jefferson D. and Mary W. (Mullersman) Powell. In her teens she moved with her family to Craig County, Oklahoma where they lived in the Goldenrod School District and she graduated from Welch High School.
After completing high school, Edna moved to St. Louis where she worked in a munitions factory and took training to become a nurse during World War II. She married Frank Parrish on May 9, 1945 in Childress, Texas, and they lived in Vinita until moving to Arizona in 1957.
In Arizona, Edna worked in the office of a well-respected surgeon. Always interested in alternative medicine and natural health remedies, she later attended college and took other courses to become a doctor of nutripathy and had a practice for many years making friends and alleviating much suffering for her patients.
After retirement, Frank and Edna returned to Craig County, where they built a home on a farm southeast of Vinita. After Frank's death in 1994, Edna lived alone on the farm until she suffered a stroke in 2005. After the stroke, she returned to Arizona living in the homes of her daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter Christin.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and an older brother, Carl Powell. Survivors include: a daughter, Lois Kay and her husband George Hoxsie, of Mesa, Arizona; three granddaughters: Carmel Bozarth of Ivins, Utah; Christin Bankhead, of Mesa, Arizona and Kimberly Lofgreen of Gilbert, Arizona; and seven great-grandchildren. Also, brothers, Lloyd Powell, of rural Craig County and Ellis Powell, of Eakley, Oklahoma; sisters, Doris Miller of Vinita; Laura Dodt of Dunedin, Florida and Alice Darnell of rural Craig County.
Services will be held Saturday, June 25th at 11 a.m. at Burckhalter Funeral Home Chapel in Vinita. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery in Vinita.
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Edna was born Sept. 16, 1920 in a log house near White Owl, South Dakota to Jefferson D. and Mary W. (Mullersman) Powell. In her teens she moved with her family to Craig County, Oklahoma where they lived in the Goldenrod School District and she graduated from Welch High School.
After completing high school, Edna moved to St. Louis where she worked in a munitions factory and took training to become a nurse during World War II. She married Frank Parrish on May 9, 1945 in Childress, Texas, and they lived in Vinita until moving to Arizona in 1957.
In Arizona, Edna worked in the office of a well-respected surgeon. Always interested in alternative medicine and natural health remedies, she later attended college and took other courses to become a doctor of nutripathy and had a practice for many years making friends and alleviating much suffering for her patients.
After retirement, Frank and Edna returned to Craig County, where they built a home on a farm southeast of Vinita. After Frank's death in 1994, Edna lived alone on the farm until she suffered a stroke in 2005. After the stroke, she returned to Arizona living in the homes of her daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter Christin.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and an older brother, Carl Powell. Survivors include: a daughter, Lois Kay and her husband George Hoxsie, of Mesa, Arizona; three granddaughters: Carmel Bozarth of Ivins, Utah; Christin Bankhead, of Mesa, Arizona and Kimberly Lofgreen of Gilbert, Arizona; and seven great-grandchildren. Also, brothers, Lloyd Powell, of rural Craig County and Ellis Powell, of Eakley, Oklahoma; sisters, Doris Miller of Vinita; Laura Dodt of Dunedin, Florida and Alice Darnell of rural Craig County.
Services will be held Saturday, June 25th at 11 a.m. at Burckhalter Funeral Home Chapel in Vinita. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery in Vinita.
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