Edna lived and worked most of her life in the Houston area where she raised her two daughters, Pam and Ricky. She was a wonderful mother and her daughters will be forever grateful for her love and for her dedication to raising them to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Once her children were grown and had left home, Edna reconnected with John R. Bebinger (Jack), a man she had known since childhood. They married in Kerrville where Jack had been living and later bought a retirement home in the Smokey Mountains of Ellijay, Georgia where they resided for most of their 33 years of marriage. When talking about Jack, Edna always commented that he was good to her. For the first time in her life, Edna was able to travel and indulge her passion for painting and making/collecting dolls.
Besides Edna's love of her family, she loved poetry and wrote numerous poems. Psalms was one of her favorite books of the Bible. She also loved holidays with Christmas being her most favorite.
In 2005, both Edna and Jack began to have failing health so Edna's daughters brought both of them to Deer Park to live. Jack passed away a short eight months after arriving. Edna was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2007.
Edna will always be remembered for her laughter. Two of her favorite sayings were, "It is better to laugh than to cry" and "Laugh and the whole world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone." And if someone asked her age, even into her eighties, she would always answer, "I'm old enough to know better and young enough to care."
Edna was preceded in death by her mother, Edna Chavannes, her father, Alexander Spiegel, her husband, John (Jack) Bebinger, and her daughter, Pamela Murray. She is survived by her daughter, Ricky Buchanan; her son-in-law, Melvin Murray; her grandchildren, Cynthia Dellinger and husband Paul, Robert Murray and wife Melinda, Keith Buchanan and wife Karen, Monica Myers and husband Andre; and her great-grandchildren, Christina Owens, Aiden Buchanan, Brady Buchanan, and Whittany Myers.
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