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Carolyn Jane "Janie" Felts

Female 1944 - 2004  (60 years)


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  • Name Carolyn Jane "Janie" Felts  [1
    Nickname Janie 
    Birth 17 Mar 1944  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 21 Jul 2004  Flint, Smith County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Sabine County Reporter
      July 28, 2004

      Excerpts from the obituary of Janie Felts Edmiston

      Carolyn Jane "Janie" Felts Edmiston, 60, of Flint moved from life on this earth to the joy of Heaven on Wednesday, July 21, 2004. Janie was born March 17, 1944 in Hemphill to E.C. "Buddy" and Dorothy Felts. She was the second of five children. She graduated from Hemphill High School where she was a majorette. She married the love of her life, Jim Edmiston, on Sept. 1, 1973. Together they moved to Flint in 1977 to continue to raise their blended family.

      Janie was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister.....exceptional quilter...gardener....diehard football fan...fisherwoman...Sunday School teacher for many years.....

      She was a spitfire with a zest for life that could not be squelched and fought pancreatic cancer with all her faith and will and might.

      Preceded in death by her father, E. C. "Buddy" Felts and a son, Tony Edmiston. Survivors, Jim Edmiston, sons Jimmy STRICKLAND, Jr., his wife Bobbie and children Justin and Robin DUCK; Marc Edmiston and children, Michael, Dustin, Alan, Brian and Blake; and a daughter, Anna BEAUDIN and children Justin and Samantha. Also....her mother, Dorothy Jean (Maund) Felts of Hemphill; and siblings, Ronnie Felts and wife Ona Lee of Hemphill; Larry Felts and wife Francis of Lufkin, Vickie Felts of Hemphill, and Dascom "Dave" Felts and wife Connie of Hemphill.

      Funeral services were held at County Line Baptist Church on FM 344 West, Lake Palestine....graveside rites at Hemphill City Cemetery. Starr Funeral Home, Inc., Hemphill, Directors.

      (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong)
    Person ID I23876  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Earnest Clifton "Buddy" Felts,   b. 8 Jun 1913, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Mar 2002, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Jean Maund,   b. 22 Oct 1923, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Apr 2009, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Family ID F5614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jimmy Hugh Strickland,   b. 22 Dec 1939, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 2006, Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1961 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Family ID F8005  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

    Family 2 Living 
    Family ID F8618  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Mar 1944 - Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 21 Jul 2004 - Flint, Smith County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S266] Ancestry.com - Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database online], (Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.).