| 1. | Johnston, Joetta was born on 9 Dec 1892 in Kentucky; died on 23 Oct 1948; was buried in GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois. Other Events and Attributes:
- Reference Number: JOHN.J012
- _FGRAVE: 106043055
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Mrs. Edens Dies at Allerton
Homer Enterprise
Thursday, October 28, 1948, page 1
Mrs. Lester Edens, 55 died at 1 p.m. Saturday at her home three and a half miles north of Allerton.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Homer Methodist church. Rev. R. E. Buford officiated. Mrs. Lawrence Rowand played organ music and the Egly sisters sang. Rev. J. E. Long, Sullivan, Ill., assisted Rev. Buford.
Burial was in GAR cemetery.
Joetta Johnson was born Dec. 9, 1892, in Kentucky, and came as a child to Clay county. She was married June 21, 1910, and in 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Edens moved to the present farm. She was a member of the Clay City Methodist church.
Surviving are her husband and six children, Mildred, at home; Mrs. Alberta Ritchey, Hume; Carol at home; Mrs. Norman Newman, Covington, Ind., and Doris and Donald, at home.
She also leaves a grandson, two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Gray, Olney, and Mrs. Carlie Saunders, Peoria, and an aunt, Mrs. Elsonia Blacklidge, Clay City. She was preceded in death by two triplet sons who died in infancy.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Family/Spouse: Edens, Lester. Lester (son of Edens, Thomas and Holman, Oma) was born on 30 Jan 1887 in Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; died on 24 May 1954 in Clark County, Illinois; was buried in GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois.
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1892 - 1948 (55 years)
(1.Joetta1) was born in 1912 in Illinois.