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Visitation:
4:00-7:00 p.m. Sunday August 26, 2018 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln
Service:
10:00 a.m. Monday August 27, 2018 at Trinity
Episcopal Church, 402 Pekin St. Lincoln
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln
Obituary
Shirley Small Edwards, age 93, of
Lincoln died at her home surrounded by family on
August 23, 2018.
She was preceded in death by her husband Robert
Doughton Edwards (1925-1988). Shirley is survived by
her children Greer Edwards Broemel (David) of
Nashville, TN; Margaret Small Edwards of Whitefish
Bay, WI; John Roxborough Edwards (Sharon) of Palos
Heights, and Caroline Edwards Higgins (Mike) in
Lincoln; her Grandchildren, Andrew Edwards, Ashley
Edwards, Emorie Broemel, Lacy Broemel and
Christopher Berg.
Shirley was active in her community and enjoyed her
service as Trustee of Lincoln College, as Board
Member of Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
Foundation, Board Member of the Logan County
Cemetery District, and Founding Board Member of
Logan County Paramedics Association. She was an
active member of Trinity Episcopal Church and as an
avid reader, belonged to the Monday and Friday book
clubs. She was a member of the Chapter JW P.E.O.
Shirley was born in Lincoln and grew up in Topeka,
Kansas. She studied at Sweetbriar College in
Virginia and graduated from the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill in 1946. She was married to
Robert Edwards at the Presbyterian Church in Lincoln
on August 2, 1950 and they started their family in
Asheville, NC before moving to Lincoln in 1957.
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The family would like to thank Kathy
Aderman, who was devoted to our mother for many
years. She made sure the house was welcoming to all.
Thanks to Ed, Charlie and Richard Jacobs as well.
We thank the caregivers who made it possible for our
mother to stay in her home this past year: Marilyn
Meiners, Mona Cosby, Meredith Lever, Judy Morris,
Dortha Seely, and Autumn Kopochius and the staff
from Safe Haven Hospice and Care Link.
Services for Shirley will be 10:00 a.m. Monday
August 27, 2018 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 402
Pekin St. Lincoln, IL 62656, with Rev. David Pfaff
officiating. Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Sunday August 26, 2018 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln. Burial at Old Union
Cemetery will follow the service.
Memorials may be made in Shirley’s name to Lincoln
College, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Logan
County Paramedics Association or Trinity Episcopal
Church.
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