EDNA KATHERINE NEWCOMER
EDNA KATHERINE NEWCOMER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 12, 1916, IN CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ROBERT ED AND SALLY LEAR (BRUCE) BURFORD. EDNA DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER RESIDENCE ON MARCH 4, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-THREE YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWENTY-ONE DAYS.
EDNA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CLARENCE E. NEWCOMER ON AUGUST 25, 1934, IN DESOTO, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
EDNA IS SURVIVED BY HER LOVING HUSBAND, CLARENCE NEWCOMER OF POTOSI, ONE SON, WAYNE NEWCOMER OF POPLAR BLUFF, THREE DAUGHTERS, LINDA MAE NEWCOMER OF POTOSI, LYDIA JOAN GORHAM-MCCABE OF FESTUS, SALLY MARIE LONER AND HUSBAND WAYNE OF DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, TEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FIVE BROTHERS, AMOS "PETE" BURFORD, HUGH BURFORD, GEORGE BURFORD, BRUCE BURFORD AND JOE BURFORD, FOUR SISTERS, LYDIA ELSEY, BESS CANTRELL, LEONA JONES MCCOURTNEY AND EVE REEVES.
EDNA HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER FAMILY, SHE ENJOYED ALL THE SPECIAL TIMES WITH THEM AND THE MEMORIES OF RAISING THAT SPECIAL GRANDCHILD, KIRK. IN RECENT YEARS, THE SPARKLE IN EDNA'S EYE WAS FROM THE MANY VISITS AND THE MANY HOURS SPENT WITH HER GREAT GRANDSON, SETH. EACH AND EVERYONE OF HER FAMILY HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HER HEART. THE LOVE OF THE FAMILY CREATED MANY MEMORIES THAT WILL BE CHERISHED FOREVER.
EDNA ENJOYED COOKING, ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAYS WHEN SHE WOULD PREPARE A FEAST FIT FOR A KING. SHE ENJOYED PLAYING THE PIANO BY EAR, DANCING AND TRAVELING. IN HER LATER YEARS EDNA ENJOYED TRAVELING THE STREETS OF THE TOWN, WAVING AND TALKING TO HER MANY FRIENDS. IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL TO SEE EDNA ARRIVE AT A BUSINESS OR A HOUSE JUST TO DROP OFF A SPECIAL TREAT SHE HAD PREPARED.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2000, FROM 3:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2000, AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NEW MASONIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, GEORGE BURFORD, JEFF NEWCOMER, WAYNE LONER, DON MCCOURTNEY, KIRK GORHAM, CRAIG MCCABE AND WAYNE NEWCOMER.
