I was born May 13, 1921, in Teague, Texas.
I spent growing-up years in Houston where I attended both Rice and the University of
Houston. I am a retired language arts teacher.
I was widowed on May 19, 1997 after 54 years of
marriage to John P. Edson, Sr. To that union there were born two sons
and two daughters whose families have produced seven grandchildren
(five grown-up) and one great-grandchild.
My husband was stricken with
Alzheimer's disease for almost four years before his death.
In connection with
both military and civil service, we spent a great many years moving
about - from Texas, on the Mexican border, to California, and all the way
to Hawaii (U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service) and we were at many inland
posts as well.
We settled finally in the Texas Hill Country in 1978
and had almost twenty wonderful retirement years. We both wrote during
that time and have three self-published books, two of a secular nature:
anecdotal family history, war memories, newspaper columns, etc. and the
third my own collection of contemporary Christian essays, ON EAGLE
WING.