MINNIE LEE EDWARDS WAS BORN TO WILLIE C. FORD, SR AND SALLIE FORD. SALLIE GAVE BIRTH TO TWINS CHANNIE AND MINNIE ON AUGUST 23, 1946, IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS. THE FORD FAMILY LATER MOVED TO HOUSTON, TEXAS IN 1949.
MINNIE ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AT FRIENDSHIP MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DR. H.B. SAMPSON, SR. SHE REMAINED A FAITHFUL MEMBER UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF DR. FRANKLIN D. SAMPSON, SR AND FRANKLIN D. SAMPSON, JR. UNTIL HER PASSING. SHE SERVED IN THE WOMEN'S CHOIR, TABERNACLE CHOIR, SCHOLARSHIP MINISTRY, FOREIGN MISSION MINISTRY, HOME MISSION MINISTRY, PASTOR'S AIDE MINISTRY, AND IN THE USHER MINISTRY.
SHE ATTENDED J.C. SANDERSON ELEMENTARY, AND GRADUATED FROM KASHMERE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1964. SHE ALSO ATTENDED TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOR TWO YEARS.
MINNIE'S CAREER INCLUDED POSITIONS AT ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, DR. CLEMMIE JOHNSON’S OFFICE, SOUTHWESTERN BELL, AND THEN FOR AT&T WHERE SHE RETIRED AFTER 30+ YEARS. SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE WITH THE SOUTHWESTEN BELL TELOPHONE PIONEERS AND COMMUNITY NETWORK OF AFRICAN AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS OF SBC DURING HER TIME WITH AT&T.
MINNIE GAVE BIRTH TO LEA ANGELA PRUITT IN 1972. IN 1975 SHE MARRIED CHARLES EDWARDS AND GAVE BIRTH TO JACQUELINE EDWARDS.
ON TUESDAY, MAY 11,2021 THE LORD CALLED MINNIE HOME. HER FATHER WILLIE C. FORD, SR., BROTHER-IN-LAW ROLLIE C. CURVEY, JR., AND NEPHEW CHRISTOPHER D. MANNING PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.
MINNIE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORIES: TWO DAUGHTERS LEA ANGELA TAYLOR (DERRICK) AND JACQUELINE HOWARD (CHRISTOPHER); MOTHER, SALLIE FORD; FOUR SISTERS, CHANNIE ADAMS (ROLAND), MARY CURVEY, KATIE MANNING, WILLIE B. FORD; ONE BROTHER, WILLIE C. FORD, JR; GRANDCHILDREN, ANGELIQUE BOUDREAUX, ANGELICA BOUDREAUX, ANGELETTA BOUDREAUX, ANGELO BOUDREAUX, CHRISTIAN HOWARD AND DAVID TAYLOR; GREAT GRANDCHILD, KADEN BOUDREAUX; TWO GOD CHILDERN; CAMBRAY CAMPBELL AND JASMINE BARNES, AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, ONE AUNT, COUSINS, AND FRIENDS. MASON PRUITT WAS ALSO A SPECIAL FRIEND TO MINNIE.
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