Edna Grace Lanham, age 92, of the Wall Street Community near Mound City, Kansas passed away on Saturday, July 25, 2015 at the Good Samaritan in Olathe, Kansas. She was born near Mound City on December 27, 1922 the daughter of Thomas Walter and Edna Grace Shaw McGee. Her mother died when she was young. Her father remarried Mary Elizabeth Green who helped raise her. She attended Coffee Bean Grade School, Blue Mound High School and Fort Scott Community College. She taught school at Linn County #6 before marrying Charles Lanham on January 28, 1944. She later worked in the Linn County Motor Vehicle Department for seventeen years. Edna was a member of the Wall Street Christian Church, American Legion Auxiliary Hewitt New Post #248, and Farm Bureau. She enjoyed needle work and working in the yard. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Charles on September 21, 2013, two brothers, Warren and Glen McGee, two sisters, Florence Freeman and Marie Berry. She is survived by four children: Eldon Lanham and Jeanine, Eugene Lanham and Nancy, Dale Lanham and Vickie, and Mary Greene and David, fourteen grand, twenty-two great, twenty great great, and four great great great grandchildren.
Graveside funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at the Curry Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory Mound City Chapel. The family suggests contributions to the Residencies at Pleasanton. On line condolences for the family can be left at
www.schneiderfunerals.com. Arrangements: Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel.
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