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| Edith L. Franklin | |
| July 20, 1919 - May 16, 2010 | |
| Newton, Iowa
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| Visitation: The family will greet friends immediately following the burial on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the Garden Room at Park Centre. | |
| Funeral Service: 2 P.M., Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the funeral home. | |
| Interment: Immediately following the funeral service on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at Newton Memorial Park Cemetery. | |
| Those left to honor Edith's memory are her son, Ronald (Marla) Franklin of Des Moines; 2 daughters, Judy (Dennis) Carlsen of Germantown, Ohio and Karen Zima of Denver, Colorado; her 3 grandchildren, Bill (Kathy) Carlsen of Kansas City, Kansas, Kember (James) Nelson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Shawn Zima of Ft. Gordon, Georgia; and 5 great-grandchildren. | |
| Edith was preceded in death by her parents, Iowa Eli and Elsie (Delker) Hunter, and her husband, Leon, in 2002. | |
| She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, 20+ year member of RSVP, and various other clubs and organization in her church and the community. | |
| Edith graduated from Bonaparte High School in 1937 and then received her teaching certificate and taught school until she was married in 1942. After her children were in school she worked at an in home daycare and then as a secretary for the Vernon Company, where she retired in 1981. | |
| Memorials to the First Presbyterian Church or the Jasper County Historical Museum may be left at the funeral home. | |
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