Edith Middleton Anderson

Published 5:00 am Thursday, October 12, 2006

Edith Middleton Anderson was born on Sept. 4, 1916, in Roxie toStanton and Julia Middleton. She died on Oct. 10, 2006, in BatonRouge, La., at the age of 90, from complications due to Parkinson’sdisease.

She was a retired teacher and a resident of Brookhaven from 1983until 1999.

Visitation will be at Resthaven Funeral Home in Baton Rouge onSaturday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. until services at the funeral homeat noon, conducted by the Rev. Gary Shows. Interment in ResthavenCemetery.

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She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Susan and TomBurkhart; two grandsons and their wives, Phillip and Sharon Kemp,and Brad and Misty Kemp; two granddaughters and their husbands,Ashley and Thomas Crowder, and Lindsay and Daniel Archer; and threesisters, Geneva Keys and Naomi Powers, of Jackson, and Julia M.Furr, of Brookhaven.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, the Rev.W. Harold Anderson; a daughter, Sandra Bruce; a grandson, JohnAnthony Bruce; and a brother, Dr. S.L. Middleton Jr.