Gertrude Edwards

Gertrude Edwards

Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Edwards, of Dublin, Georgia, will be held on Thursday, November 2, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the First African Baptist Church, 405 Telfair Street in Dublin. Pastor Robert Wilder will deliver the eulogy. The interment will follow in the Dudley Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Edwards who passed on October 28, 2017, was born April 25, 1949, in Cadwell to the late Earnest Albert Burch and Naomi Rachel Burch. She is from a family of fourteen brothers and sisters. She joined Sun Hill Baptist Church at an early age, and then later joined Robinson Chapel Baptist Church, where she served as a member of the choir and as the Sunday School Secretary.

She graduated from Mary Fleming High School in 1968. She worked at Mohawk for twenty five years, and K-mart for twenty years. She also managed her own beauty salon for twenty nine years.

Mrs. Edwards was preceded in death by one brother, Nathaniel Northcut.

She leaves to cherish her memories a devoted husband, Thomas Edwards, Sr. of forty eight years; three sons, Thomas (Sheila) Edwards, Jr., Anthony (Anouska) Edwards, Sr., Dublin, Cassuis (Tamiko) Edwards, Jesup; nine grandchildren, Natoya Edwards, Tyril Edwards, Tiya Edwards, Anthony Edwards, Jr., Kian Edwards, Quintez Edwards, Saniyah Edwards, Jonas Edwards, and Jacob Edwards; great grandchild, Arya Hill; four sisters, Daisy Givens, Macon, Rachel (Danny) Simpson, Atlanta, Mary (Roy) Nelson, Martha Flora Mae (Terrance) Davis, Dublin; nine brothers, John Simon Burch, Savannah, Matthew Burch and Sammie Robinson, Macon, Joseph Burch, Albert (Velma) Burch, Sr., Dublin, Solomon (Meta) Burch, Eastman, Paul (Rose) Burch, Fort Benning, J.T. Burch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

The family is receiving friends at 674 Paul Kennedy Road in Dublin.

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