Dorothy Genevieve Graves Edgington

Dorothy G. Edgington, 95, of rural Flat Rock, IL, died at 2:05 a.m. Thursday, September 20, 2012 at the Cotillion Ridge Nursing Home, Robinson. She was born April 10, 1917 in Garrison Crossing, KS, she was the daughter of Amos A. Graves and Clara D. Bruss Graves. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church of Flat Rock. She was devoted to her church and family where ever she lived. She taught bible lessons to kindergarden children through adults wherever the need was.She was a church librarian increasing the library to over 5000 books and church literature, setting up the Dewey Decimal classification for the location. She was a devoted wife and mother, caring for two children during World War II, and could be counted as part of the Greatest Generation along with other wives and mothers.After raising her family, she completed her nursing education and retiring from nursing care in the local hospital. She worked for Upjohn Pharmaceutical Home Nursing Care in Michigan after retiring.She taught an adult reading and writing class for the State of Michigan, for people unable to read or write. Any job she undertook, she spent time preparing herself, taking advantage of any training that was available.Preceding her in death were her parents; her son Marlin Edgington; two sisters, Margaret Richards and Mildred Dobson; and a brother, Gerald Graves of Kansas.On October 5, 1938, she married Owen Edgington who survives along with daughters and their spouses, Sharon and David Diffenderfer, Vanessa and Jim Williams; son John and Martha Edgington; and her daughter-in-law, Pearlann Edgington.She also leaves 9 grandchildren; nieces, nephews and many friends. Owen and Dorothy would have celebrated their 74th anniversary on October 5th.It is difficult when the sadness of a physical death touches our lives, but how fortunate we are when we know that the loved one has received Jesus as savior.Funeral services will be held Monday, September 24th at 2:00 p.m., at the Flat Rock Missionary Baptist Church, with Pastor John Mulvaney officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant View Cemetery, rural Palestine. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, at the Goodwine Funeral Home, Palestine.