Edith Arline Unruh © Enid News and eagle 01-1994 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
The funeral for Edith Arline Unruh, 88, will be at 10 AM Tuesday at Central Christian Church. Dr. Lloyd H. Lambert will officiate. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery under direction of Brown Funeral Home, Enid.
The casket will be open at the funeral home Sunday and until service time Tuesday.
She was born January 10, 1906, on a farm near Mendota, Illinois, to Clarence John and Edith Mabel Carr Rogers and died Thursday, January 27, 1994, in Brighton, Colorado. She had moved with her family to Oklahoma in 1909, settling on a farm near Jefferson. She completed high school in Jefferson, then graduated from Enid Business College in April 1924.
On March 3, 1925, she married Perry Unruh in Jefferson. They lived in Enid until 1969 when they retired to their Lakeside home at Shell Knob, Missouri. He died September 12, 1974.
While living in Enid, she was active in the Parent – Teacher Association, Phillips Mother's Club, Singing Yves and Sweet Adelines, a sponsor of church youth, a charter member and Treas. of the Cheery Cherry Red Ladies at Bass Memorial Baptist Hospital, a charter member and chairwoman of the Golden Circle Volunteers to nursing homes, and assistant to the Minister in Homebound visitation and a member of the Christian Women's Fellowship.
Surviving are two sons: Gerald of Littleton, Colorado, and Stanley of Brighton; two grandsons; and two great – grandsons.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the church.
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