Edwards, Jonas Fenton

Funeral services had not been completed Saturday for Jonas Fenton Edwards, Baxter Springs Kansas resident and father of Mrs. Bob Sellers, 18 B Street southwest, Miami, who died Thursday night at the Norton Kansas hospital. Mr. Edwards, who was 50 years old, had been hospitalized for the last two and one-half years. Born in Missouri, he went to Wagoner Oklahoma, in 1910 and moved to Baxter in 1928. He had been an employee of the Vinegar Hill Zinc Company. Surviving are his wife, Maudie Edwards; two other daughters, Mrs. Louise Bates of Miami Florida, and Mrs. Lucille Young of Joplin Missouri; a son, J. F. Edwards, Jr., of San Diego California, naval training station; a grandson; four sisters, Mrs. Lula Turnham of Wagoner, Mrs. Minnie Stockwell of Oskaloosa Kansas, Mrs. Cela Bales of Garden City Kansas, and Mrs. Ida Atwood of Enid Oklahoma, and two brothers, Hiram Edwards of Allen Oklahoma, and Charles E. Edwards of Muskogee. The body was returned to Baxter Springs Saturday. The Hoskins funeral home will announce arrangements. The body will lie in state at the Edwards residence, 540 West Eleventh Street.

Funeral services for Jonas Fenton Edwards, Baxter Springs resident who died last Thursday night in a Norton Kansas hospital, will be conducted at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Baxter Fifth Street Mission. Burial will be in Baxter Spring Kansas cemetery.