{"id":7768,"date":"2020-11-11T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:18:10","slug":"edwards-bessie-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/edwards-bessie-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards, Bessie Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obituary-text\">\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" data-server-action=\"\/obituaries\/Bessie-Edwards-6\/ProcessUpdateTributeObituary\" data-editclass=\"edit-obituary\" data-fieldtype=\"textarea\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Bessie Belle Spears Edwards was born April 5, 1923 in Hohenwald, TN to the late Alma Doyle and Richard Spears and Ddied November 10, 2020 at the age of 97 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ms Edwards is also preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Leonard Carlton Edwards and siblings, Beadie (Wilbur) Nix, Sara (Robert) Dodson, Hassel (May) Spears, Hershel (Dell) Spears and Richard (Coleen) Spears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She is survived by her daughters, Linda (Ron) Boyle, Hendersonville, TN, and Sharon Edwards, Hohenwald, TN, and a son, Rick (Regina) Edwards, Linden, TN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ms. Edwards is also survived by 6 grandchildren, Michelle (Billy) Nollner, Kristy (Charles) Hartsook, Vickie (Richard) Hinson, Chaz (Savannahlynn) Edwards, Trey Edwards, Brandi (Jason) Holder. Also survived by 8 great grandchildren, Madyson and Makaylee Nollner, Samantha Hartsook, Brooklynn (Tanner) Verslius, Bryson Edwards, Bree and Gavin Holder and Kirsten Hinson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ms. Edwards was a member of Lomax Church of Christ. She enjoyed all family events, church events, family visits, sports (especially football) on TV, crocheting, knitting, flowers and travel to visit relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">After marriage she lived in Jasper, TN, Sheffield, AL, Nashville, TN and returned to Hohenwald where she spent the remainder of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Visitation with the Edwards family will be held on Friday, November 13 from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Funeral Services will held at the conclusion of visitation, beginning at 1:00 PM in the McDonald Funeral Home in Hohenwald. Jeff Spears and Malcolm George will officiate, with burial following in the Lomax Cemetery, Hohenwald, TN.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"services-events\">\n<div class=\"services-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bessie Belle Spears Edwards was born April 5, 1923 in Hohenwald, TN to the late Alma Doyle and Richard Spears and Ddied November 10, 2020 at the age of 97 years. Ms Edwards is also preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Leonard Carlton Edwards and siblings, Beadie (Wilbur) Nix, Sara (Robert) Dodson, Hassel (May) Spears, Hershel (Dell)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/edwards-bessie-belle\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,247,2111],"tags":[4216,87,138,147,4218,144,240,1527,4217,43,4219],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burial-records","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","category-obituaries","tag-boyle","tag-dodson","tag-doyle","tag-edwards","tag-hartsook","tag-hinson","tag-holder","tag-nix","tag-nollner","tag-spears","tag-verslius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}