OBITUARY
Name: Edith (Newcomer) Statler Miller
From: The Southeast Missourian,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Date: Thursday, January 2, 1941
Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Miller, 36 years
old, wife of Edward L. Miller, a Cotton Belt Railroad conductor, who died
Tuesday at the state sanitarium at Mt. Vernon were conducted this afternoon at
the Brinkopf-Howell Funeral Home. Rev. W. S. Cravens conducted the rites and
burial was in Fairmount cemetery. Mrs. Miller had been a patient at the
sanitarium since early August.
She was born Aug. 25, 1904 and spent all of her life in southeast Missouri.
She is survived by her husband, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Newcomer of Bloomfield; four sisters, Mrs. Frank Eddy and Mrs.
Charles Brantley of Pontiac, Mich.; Mrs. Luther Stropp of Sikeston, and Mrs.
Jack Winchester of Advance, and four brothers, Louis Newcomer of Bernie, Luther
Newcomer of St. Louis, John Newcomer of Columbus, Ohio and J.C. Newcomer of
Bloomfield.