Edna Mae Newman, 90, of rural La Fontaine, Indiana, died at 10:56 a.m., Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at Wellbrooke of Wabash. She was born February 22, 1930 in Wabash County, Indiana to Leo and Ellen Lucille (Pegg) Futrell.
Edna was a 1947 graduate of LaFontaine High School. She married Wilbur Dean Newman in Wabash on June 21, 1959; he died November 14, 2008. She worked 25 years at Kroger Egg in Wabash until it closed in April of 1982. Edna was a member of the Washington Street Wesleyan Church in Wabash and since its closure, has attended the Pilgrim Holiness Church in Marion. She enjoyed reading her Bible, cooking, baking, noodle making, and especially enjoyed her granddaughter.
She is survived by two children, Greg (Regina) Newman of La Fontaine, and Kimberly A. Newman of Phoenix, Arizona, and her step son, Jerry Newman of North Manchester, Indiana, one granddaughter, Amy (Dorran) Cornett of Milton, Florida, three step grandchildren, Diane Newman, Tammy (Brad) Morris, and Kelly (Anthony) DeLaughter, five step great grandchildren, two sisters, Grace Sirk of Mattawan, Michigan, and Margaret Bigger of LaFontaine, and her brother, Charles (Norma) Futrell of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Leo Futrell, Jr. and her sister, Helen Rhoads.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with Pastors Steve Hudson and Phil Harris officiating. Burial will be in Gardens of Memory Cemetery, in rural Huntington County, Indiana. Friends may call 2:00 – 8:00 p.m., Monday, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is the Pilgrim Holiness Church, Marion, Indiana.
The memorial guest book for Edna may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.