"E" OBITUARIES

Scott County Missouri Genealogy Trails


Baton Rouge, LA–MIKE J. EDWARDS, a retired Gulf States Utilities Co. employee and a resident of Baton Rouge, died at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, April 10, 1997, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. He was 73 and a native of Vanduser, Mo. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday. Religious services at the funeral home chapel at 9 a.m. Saturday, conducted by the Rev. Jim Bain. Graveside services at Blackwell Cemetery,Folsom, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Survived by wife, Margaret Joyce Dickson Edwards; a son, Mike J. Edwards Jr., San Francisco; a stepdaughter and spouse, Cheri Richards and Dwight Clement, Houston; two stepsons, J. Kyle Richards, New Orleans, and Jeffrey Richards, Baton Rouge; a sister, Irene E. Landry, Baton Rouge; a brother, Dr. James D. Edwards, Athens, Ga.; a granddaughter, Phaedra Edwards, San Francisco; and four stepgrandchildren, Kellie and Kyle Clement, both of Houston, and Jeffrey Jr. and Lindsey Richards, both of Natchez, Miss. Preceded in death by parents, the Rev. Thomas T. Sr. and Reitha Cranford Edwards; and a brother, Thomas T. Edwards Jr. He was a member of Istrouma Baptist Church, Campus Bible class at LSU, Baton Rouge Lodge No. 372, F&AM, and Cajun Clickers. He was a ham radio operator.    --Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - April 11, 1997


Inverness, FL--ELMER EICHHORN, 73, of Inverness, died Saturday (Feb. 24, 1990). Born in New Hamburg, Mo., he moved to Inverness 28 years ago from Clearwater. He was a retired building contractor, a member of the First Assembly of God Church, a charter member and past president of the Beverly Hills Lions Club and a former zone chairman for the Florida Lions Club. Survivors include his wife, Helen; a son, John, Hernando; four daughters, Mary Horne and Joyce Colston, both of Inverness, Linda Hickey, Hernando, and Brenda Gorham, Jacksonville; four brothers, Marvin, Clyde and Cyril, all of Chaffee, Mo., and Ervin, Kelso, Mo.; two sisters, Coena Urhaun and Rose Talley, both of Chaffee; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Anderson McQueen Funeral Home, St. Petersburg.  --St. Petersburg Times (FL) - March 1, 1990


Bartow, FL--EMERSON ESKEW, 79, of Bartow died Tuesday (Feb. 19,1991) at Bartow Memorial Hospital. A native of Chaffee, Mo., he moved to this area 10 years ago from Alabama. He was a sheet metal worker and a member of First Assembly of God of Bartow. He is survived by his wife, Helen M.; a son, Jack W. of Albany, Ga.; three daughters, Dorothy L. Birge of Riverview, Kathern S. Harbison of Cullman, Ala., and Margaret A. Allen of Nashville; and 14 grandchildren. Lakeland Funeral Home.  
--Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - February 23, 1991