Edna D. Curryer

12/23/1923 - 05/16/2011

CURRYER, Edna D. (Mills)

Passed away Monday, May 16th, 2011. She was born in Spokane, WA on the 26th of November 1923 and was a lifelong Spokane resident. She proudly remembered the tales told by her grandparents of their trek over the Oregon Trail at the turn of the century where they found a better life. Edna now joins them and has found eternal peace.
Edna enjoyed traveling. One of her highlights was visiting her son and daughter in-law at NATO headquarters in Belgium. She enjoyed fishing and picking huckleberries and sharing many special times with her family. She was a devoted, loving mother and wife; truly this was her proudest accomplishment.
Edna went to work for Pacific NW Bell as an information board operator early after high school. She later worked for the Naval Supply Depot during WWII preparing shipments of supplies for our service men and then worked for Columbia Electric on the assembly line making ammunition and boosters for mortar shells. Edna served as foster parent to many children, mostly newborns and toddlers, through the Spokane Children's Home Society while maintaining the family household and raising her four children. Later, she assisted her husband Harold in tuning and servicing pipe organs in the Inland Northwest.
She was the daughter of Samuel Leslie Mills and Sadie Vernum of Sprague, and Spokane, WA. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Harold Curryer; four children: Kathy (Tom) Cockrell, Roxanne (Neal) Powell, Alan (Melissa) Curryer and Steve (Kathy) Curryer; and by grandchildren; Karie and Marcy, Christopher, Brandon and Adam, Laura and Will, and seven great-grandchildren; a sister Mildred Geiger and her children Debby and Christine, and Debby's children. Visitation Friday, May 20, 10:00 am-4:30 pm. A graveside committal will take place Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm at Orchard Prairie Cemetery, with Reverend Linda Elder officiating. Memorial donations in Edna's memory may be made to the Spokane Children's Home Society, 2323 N Discovery Place, Spokane Valley, WA 99216.