Edna Register Boone

BYRD FUNERAL HOME ON WEST MAIN STREET

Viewed: 4571

Posted by: ByrdFuneralHome
[email protected]
334.793.3003
Date: Nov 16 2011 3:01 PM

Byrd Funeral Home

3409 West Main Street

Dothan, Alabama 36305

(334) 793-3003

byrdfuneralhome.com

 

Edna R. Boone

 

Edna Register Boone, a native of Houston County and a former resident of both Madrid and Dothan, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. She was 104.

 

Funeral services will be held 12:00 noon Friday, November 18, 2011, at Byrd Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bobby Skipper officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Hill Cemetery with Byrd Funeral Home on West Main Street directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11:00-11:45 a.m. Friday and also at the Madrid United Methodist Church immediately following interment.

 

“Miss Edna”, as she came to be called, was born on October 3, 1907 in the town of Madrid in the southern part of Houston County, as the youngest of 11 children. Her ancestors were among the first settlers of Houston County and her parents moved from the countryside to Madrid shortly before she was born. She attended grade school in Madrid, and later on graduated from a private boarding school in Powder Springs, Georgia, which is near Atlanta. She worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company in different locations, and eventually was transferred to that company’s Birmingham office. While there, she met Tom Boone, who became her husband, and they had one child, Jay Boone. The family lived in Birmingham for many years, with Miss Edna continuing to work, finally retiring from the Social Security Administration’s office there. She and her husband relocated to Dothan in 1983, and he passed away in 1984. From 1983 until 2007 she lived for part of the time in her house in Dothan, and part of the time in her family’s house in Madrid, where she was an active member of the Madrid United Methodist Church. She was also an accomplished artist, wrote poetry, and regularly served as a volunteer with the Wiregrass Hospice organization. In 2007, just before her 100th birthday, she moved to the Mobile area to be near her son and grandson. 

 

Miss Edna is survived by her son and also a number of family members from both the Register and Boone branches. We know she is in a place where we all hope to be. She was a great example of faithfulness to those who knew her and will be missed by her family and her many friends. 

 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Madrid United Methodist Church, 764 Decatur Rd., Box C-17, Cottonwood, AL 36303.

<- back