Ernest Marret Edwards (2009)

EDWARDS, BURCH, SPENCER, MORGAN, HARMON, GROTH, BOGE, EVANS, AMREIN, HOCHBEIN, GITTINS, WINTER, LIVERMORE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/24/2009 at 15:43:26

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
December 23, 2009

MARRET EDWARDS, Osceola

Ernest Marret Edwards, 89, of Osceola died Dec. 18, 2009, at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held today (Wednesday, Dec. 23) at the Osceola United Methodist Church. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery. Memorials will be directed to the Osceola United Methodist Church Puppets of Praise or the Truro Public Library. Funeral arrangements were handled by Kale Funeral Home of Osceola.

Ernest Edwards was born Aug. 8, 1920, in Osceola to Perry and Flossie (Burch) Edwards. He grew up in Clarke and Madison counties, attending country school near Murray and then Murray High School. His marriage to Esther Spencer took place March 18, 1944. Soon after their marriage, they made their home and farmed near Peru. Esther passed away in 1952. In 1959, Marret and his children moved to a farm near Truro where he worked for Reed Feed and Grain. He later sold Stormor bins and was a licensed grain dealer. Marret married Patricia (Harmon) Morgan of Des Moines on Jan. 30, 1971, in Des Moines. He was a 50 plus-year member of of the Masonic Lodge.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Esther; two brothers, Floyd and Earl Edwards; two sisters, Wilda Groth and Mary Jane Boge; and a stepson, LeRoy Morgan.

He is survived by his wife, Pat, of Osceola; his children, Joyce Evans of Falcon Heights, Minn., Janice Amrein of Placentia, Calif., Marv Edwards of Baltimore, Md., and Nancy Hochbein of Lakeville, Minn.; two stepchildren, Mary Gittins of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Tim Edwards of Des Moines; and two sisters, Jean Winter of Osceola and Helen Livermore of Martinsburg, W.Va.