1934
Mitzie
2016
Mitzie Briscoe Edwards
October 23, 1934 — September 25, 2016
Mitzie Briscoe Edwards, age 81 of DeFuniak Springs passed gently into the night on Sunday, September 25, 2016. She was born in West Plains, Missouri October 23, 1934 to Whitelaw Briscoe and Mary Alice Thompson Briscoe. Mitzie grew up living an idyllic life on a small Missouri farm, save a brief move to San Diego, California during the war. Her adult years took her to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Joliet and Wilmington, Illinois and finally to DeFuniak Springs, Florida upon the retirement of her husband Leonard F. Edwards. Mitzie's career involved working in human resources at Montgomery Ward and labor relations for Uniroyal at the Joliet Army Amunition Plant. However, her true passion was her writing and her art, culminating in illustrating several published books and leaving behind poems, short stories and a memories of childhood book. She is preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, one brother, two sons and husband and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
She is survived by two daughters, Cynthia L. Vance of Katy, Texas and Mary Katheryn Vance of DeFuniak Springs.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in Mitzie Edwards memory to the Wildlife Conservation Fund. Private family services are being conducted at a later date.
THIS POEM WRITTEN BY MITZIE ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MOM
Years have passed but I recall
Each hour I spent with you;
The beauty we saw of a golden Fall,
The Springs which made things new.
Everything - so beautiful!
The flowers - and the sky
A fairyland so bountiful
Where I need never to cry.
It was good to walk beside you
In the years that have gone by.
How wonderful to know it's true
We'll walk again in the sweet by and by.
I owe so much to you, it's true
So much I can never repay.
I thank the Lord above each day
For such a Mom as you.
Written for my Mother with Love 3-31-59 Oklahoma City, Okla.
Each hour I spent with you;
The beauty we saw of a golden Fall,
The Springs which made things new.
Everything - so beautiful!
The flowers - and the sky
A fairyland so bountiful
Where I need never to cry.
It was good to walk beside you
In the years that have gone by.
How wonderful to know it's true
We'll walk again in the sweet by and by.
I owe so much to you, it's true
So much I can never repay.
I thank the Lord above each day
For such a Mom as you.
Written for my Mother with Love 3-31-59 Oklahoma City, Okla.
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