Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
December 27, 2000
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip Reid, Publisher

Funeral services for Edith Mae Redman 93, of Nowata, who died Tuesday, December 19, 2000 at Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center were held Thursday, December 21 at Benjamin Funeral Chapel in Nowata with the Reverend Paul Campbell officiating. Interment followed at Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service in Nowata. Pallbearers were seven grandsons.

Edith was born near Shawnee in Lincoln County Oklahoma Territory on August 8, 1907 to Britton and Myrtle Love Stark. The family moved from Lincoln County to near Dewey when she was five. She began her education in the Bluemound School house. In 1916, the family moved to Copan. When she was 13 they moved to Midway School area. After her marriage to Elmer William Redman at Bartlesville on June 1, 1926, she moved to the Hog Shooter area then to the Adair School District where she was a cook for eight years. The Redmans moved to Nowata in 1948. She was a member of Trinity Full Gospel Church in Nowata, where she was active in the Church and Sunday School. Edith also loved flowers and feeding the birds.

Mrs. Redman is survived by two daughters: Ruth Marie Voris of Nowata and Myrtle Ellen Sitsler of Coffeyville, Kansas; nine grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and 27 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer William Redman on January 22, 1958; a great-granddaughter, a great-grandson; four brothers: Eugene, Lester, Chester and Raymond Stark and two sisters: Mildred Stark and an infant sister.