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Edwards Cemetery ~ Velna Lena Edwards ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Edwards, Velna Lena
LAST NAME: Edwards FIRST NAME: Velna MIDDLE NAME: Lena NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Bevens AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 25 Apr 1893 DIED: 5 Apr 1964 BURIED: 8 Apr 1964 (Edwards Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Airlie, Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Gilbert Bevens
Name of mother Nancy Emeline Crowley
[parents buried at Womer Cemetery]
1900 OR CENSUS - Velna Bevins, age 7, b. Apr 1893 in Oregon, is enumerated with Gilbert, age 33, occupation logger, b. Oct 1866 in Oregon, and Nancy, age 30, mother of 3 children 2 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Nov 1869 in Oregon, along with Jessie, age 11, b. May 1889 in Oregon.
1930 OR CENSUS - Velma [Velna] Edwards, age 37, b. Oregon, is enumerated with husband Lafe, age 44, occupation RR section laborer, b. Oregon, along with Otto, age 11, b. Oregon.

1940 OR CENSUS – Velma Edwards (46y, b Oregon) enumerated with husband Lafe (64y, b Oregon, occupation farmer) and son Otto G. (20y, b Oregon, occupation lumber yard); family was living in same house in 1935

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1964 Polk co) #6024 Velna Lena Edwards, female, housewife, widowed; b 25 Apr 1893, Airlie, Ore; father Gilbert J. Bevens; mother Nancy Crowley; d 5 Apr 1964, Dallas hosp, of North G St, Philomath, age 70y; bur Edwards cem; informant Glen Edwards, son

OBITUARY: 

Mrs Velna Lena Edwards, 71, lifelong resident of the Airlie-Pedee area, died Sunday night at the Dallas hospital. She had been in ill health about a month but had entered the hospital very recently. Mrs Edwards was born April 25, 1893, at Airlie, daughter of Gilbert J. and Nancy Crowley Bevens. She married Lafe Edwards at Dallas Sept 27, 1917. They had resided at Airlie and Pedee from 1931 to 1950 when they went to Philomath. Mr Edwards died Dec 8, 1958. The family home was on North G street in Philomath. Surviving are one son, Glen Edwards, Route 2, Monmouth, and one sister, Mrs Jessie Edwards, Philomath. There are three grandchildren. Services were Wednesday afternoon at Bollman Funeral Home and burial was in Edwards cemetery near Pedee.
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, April 9, 1964, 4:8

INSCRIPTION: 

Edwards
Velna
1893 - 1964
[shares marker with Lafe]

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Polk County 1964) #6024
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 176, sheet 6A)
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Airlie, ED 13, sheet 2A)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Pedee, ED 27-37, sheet 3A) 
Itemizer Observer, 9 Apr 1964, 4:8

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