Edna Faye Sherwood

Services for Edna "Faye" Sherwood, 84, of Wills Point, will be held 11 AM Saturday, December 13, 2025, at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton with Bro. Mike Knous officiating. Interment will be in Haven of Memories.

Mrs. Sherwood passed away on December 3, 2025, at Windsor Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Terrell, TX. She was born June 12, 1941 to Leon and Pearlie Wilson in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

Faye met Wesley Sherwood Sr in 1959 and married him on June 6, 1960, while working as a Bell Telephone operator in Dallas which she continued employment until 1961 upon the birth of her first child, after which she she served 64 years as a domestic engineer to the Sherwood family and other beloved neighbors and friends. Faye cared for her Uncle James Robinson, neighbor Bill Bently, mother-in-law Alice Young, brother-in-law John Sherwood and sister Betty Schell at the end their of lives. Her work with family, friends and loved ones saw her: painting both the interior and exterior of homes, repairing a neighbor's cistern, installing gutters, doing lawn work, caring for neighbors and family member's children after school, cooking, cleaning homes, driving anyone who needed it to the doctor, and caring for the domestic needs of her family, neighbors and loved ones, if a need was there she fulfilled it. She managed this work often solo while her husband's work took him all over the world from months to a year, at a time over the last 30 years he worked. She loved spending time with her family, neighbors, and friends she was a very generous lady.

Mrs. Sherwood is preceded in death by her husband Wesley Sherwood Sr, parents: Leon Wilson and Pearlie Moore; step father, Jimmie Moore; and sister Betty Schell.

Faye is survived by her son, Wesley Sherwood Jr. and wife, Carol; daughter, Connie Sherwood Tramel and husband, Glenn; daughter, Brenda Sherwood Rodgers; five grandchildren: Correna Carmona, Kenny Herrin, Christopher Rodgers, Mitchell Sherwood, and Liligrace Birdsong-Sherwood; eight great-grandchildren: Raylynd, Dane, Aven, Austin, Loen, Julian, Theodore and Genevieve; one great-great-grandchild, Ashlynn; and two half sisters: Linda Scott and Mary Bailey.

Pallbearers will be Mike Matus, Brooks Blanton, Alton Sherwood, Herman Martin, James Sherwood and John Carmona. Honorary

pallbearers are Cecil Sherwood, Walt Edwards and Anthony Hambric.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.