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A long ago neighbor remembers Ed Edmonds (1919-2014) Ed was one of twelve kids, and his sweet Mom, Nettie, always had room for one more kid - grand-kid, neighbor kid, any kid - on her lap and in her heart. She was the nearest thing to a real "Gra'ma" I ever had. - NEIGHBOR About: Edwin Edmonds, 94, Russell Co., KY (1919-2014) From a boyhood neighbor Ed Edmonds and his first wife and their boys, along with his brother Morris and their Mom and Dad, lived a little farther out Bottom Road than did my family. Ed's father, Mr. Ben Edmonds, had been one of my father's schoolteachers in the early 1920s when both families lived near the Russell-Pulaski line before removing to near Russell Springs in the early 1930s and becoming neighbors. Ed was one of twelve kids, and his sweet Mom, Nettie, always had room for one more kid -- grand-kid, neighbor kid, any kid -- on her lap and in her heart. She was the nearest thing to a real "Gra'ma" I ever had. Three of Ed's brothers served overseas in World War II -- Olas (Navy), Morris (Army), and Jimmy, also in the Army. Jimmy was killed in action in France in early August, 1944, and the Russell County News stated he had been "in all the campaigns from the North African to the Normandy Invasion." In "The Tribe of Benjamin" (2000), a privately printed collection of Edmonds family memories, Edwin wrote of Jimmy's death: "My mother's grief was one of great remorse of her contribution to a senseless war, a sacrifice that many other mothers shared." Edwin, like the rest of us, had frailties of the flesh, but he was a friend and neighbor of long standing, and I mourn his passing. A BOYHOOD NEIGHBOR Known to CM, but who favored us with this touching tribute to a great Russell County family on the condition of anonymity. - EW This story was posted on 2014-09-17 02:00:09
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