Memorial Mass:
Friday, October 15, 2021, at 11:00 at Holy Family
Parish
Celebration of Life to follow at
the Lincoln Knights of Columbus
Funeral home:
Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln
Obituary
Caroline Edwards Higgins passed away
at her home on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. A Memorial
Mass is planned for Friday, October 15, 2021, at
11:00 at Holy Family Parish with Rev. Jeffrey G.
Laible officiating. A Celebration of Life will
follow at the Lincoln Knights of Columbus.
Caroline was born August 26, 1959, in Lincoln, the
daughter of Robert Doughton Edwards and Shirley
Small Edwards. She was married to Michael Higgins on
April 2, 2011, in Lincoln.
Caroline is survived by her husband; sisters Greer
(David) Broemel of Nashville, TN and Margaret
Edwards of Whitefish Bay, WI; brother John (Sharon
King) Edwards of Palos Heights; nieces Ashley
Edwards, and Emory and Lacey Broemel; and nephews
Andrew Edwards and Christopher Berg.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
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Caroline graduated from Lincoln
Community High School in 1977, Lincoln College in
1981 and Milliken University in 1984, but was
converted into an avid Northwestern University fan!
She held memberships in P.E.O., Zonta and the
Lincoln Emblem Club, was on the board of Lincoln
Community Theatre and WATCH at Holy Family, and was
a founding Friend of The Lincoln Heritage Museum at
Lincoln College.
Caroline worked in the copier industry for over
thirty years, finishing as a named account
representative for KMBS.
Caroline dearly loved her family, her friends, and
her church, and challenged all of us, by her
example, to give our all in whatever we did.
Memorials may be made in Caroline’s name to the Holy
Family Interior Renovation Fund or to the Lincoln
Heritage Museum at Lincoln College.
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