MEADE – Iva L. Edwards, age 88, died late Sunday evening, January 6, 2008, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas.

She was born May 13, 1919, at Meade, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Emma Katherine (Flowers) Epley. A lifetime resident of Meade, she was a bookkeeper for the Meade Co-Op and a seamstress.

She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene, serving as a Sunday School teacher, the church Caravan, and the hospitality committee; and the EHU, all of Meade.

On October 31, 1941, she married Wallace Wesley Edwards at Cimarron, Kansas. He precedes her in death on October 30, 1970.

She is survived by:

Two sons, Gerald Edwards of Garden City, Kansas
David Edwards of Arkansas City, Kansas

Three daughters, Beverly Parsons of Casper, Wyoming
Barbara Davis of Sublette, Kansas
Shayla Westhoff of Arkansas City, Kansas

20 grandchildren 31 great-grandchildren 2 great-great-grandchildren

She is preceded in death by her husband; a son, Harold Edwards; a daughter, Ruth Edwards; three brothers, including, Loren Epley; a twin sister, Eva Cox; and a grandchild, Lisa Marie Edwards.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 10, 2008, at the Church of the Nazarene, Meade, with the Reverend Ron Willard presiding. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, at Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade. Interment will be in the Graceland Cemetery, Meade.

The family would welcome memorials to the Windows to the World project or the Hospice of the Prairie in care of the funeral home.