Services set for the Rev. Thelma Edwards, 102
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church, 2321 Fitzwater St., for the Rev. Thelma Edwards, who died July 10 at the age of 102. She lived in West Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church, 2321 Fitzwater St., for the Rev. Thelma Edwards, who died July 10 at the age of 102. She lived in West Philadelphia.
She was born to Willie and Emma Brunson on a farm in Edgefield, S.C., where she did heavy farm work through her childhood.
Her sister, Sophie Lanham, said the work was so hard "I don't want to think about it."
Thelma came to Philadelphia as a young woman and did domestic work while becoming active with Greater St. Matthew Church, where she was a missionary and was later ordained as a minister.
Besides her sister, she is survived by a son, Andrew Holmes, and another sister, Amanda Brunson.
A viewing will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Merion Memorial Park, Bala-Cynwyd.
- John F. Morrison