This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Laws, Pear, Holman, Sellers, Gossett, Riley. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QAw.2ACIB/782 Message Board Post: OBITUARY: Tuesday, August 28, 1990 EDITH M. LAWS A funeral for Edith M. Laws, 82, 1100 W. 15th, who died Monday, Aug 27, 1990, at Ottawa Retirement Village, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home with Rev. Jerrald R. Harnden officiating. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery. Born Jan 18, 1908, at Princeton, she was the daughter of Joseph Franklin and Lottie Mae (Purdy) Pear. She married John Franklin Laws Nov. 21, 1929, at Burlington. He died Oct. 11, 1969. She grew up in the Princeton area and attended Ohio City Grade School. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1927. She then attended Ottawa Business College. She worked at Ottawa Hardware before her marriage, after which she and her husband lived in Ottawa until moving to Princeton in 1932. In 1941 they moved to Williamsburg. She returned to Ottawa in 1970. She was a homemaker and worked as an aide in the laboratory at Ransom Memorial Hospital for several years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Ottawa, was a member of the church's What-S0-Ever Sunday School Class and was active in church circles. Survivors include two daughters, JoAnne Holman, Lee Summit, Mo., and Janie Sellers, 1316 S. Oak; a son, John F. "Jack" Laws, LaCyne, two step-daughters, Naomi Gossett, DeBary, Fla., and Ruth Riley, Nampa, Idaho, 18 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Wednesday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, where the family will meet with friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The family suggests that First United Methodist Church be beneficiary of memorial contrbutions, which may be left in care of the church or funeral home.