MARTINSVILLE BULLETIN
Edith Sawyers
Edith Ebie Sawyers, 83, of Fieldale, died Wednesday, March 8, 2007, at Stanleytown Healthcare.
She was born Dec. 28, 1923, in Greyson County to John Lee Clark and Clevie Stone Clark. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Garnett Harding Sawyers; three brothers, Jimmy Lee Clark, Lyndsey Clark and Carlton Weldon Clark; and a grandson, Stacy.
She was a member of Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church and a former member of McCabe Memorial Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Becky Lane Agnew of Pleasant Grove; three sons, Marvin Lynwood Sawyers of Ridgeway, Douglas Harding Sawyers and Charles Lee Sawyers, both of Martinsville; four sisters, Kathleen Reynolds of Martinsville, Shirley Young of Collinsville, Audrey Shelor of Portsmouth and Gertrude Nance of Greensboro, N.C.; three brothers, Ronnie Clark of Martinsville, Carl W. Clark of Danville and Jackie Clark of Las Vegas, Nev.; six grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. today at Bassett Funeral Services South Chapel with Pastor George Gorman officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Burial Park.
Records indicate the coiple married in 1947 and then again in 1976. On the 1976 marriage document, Garnett is listed as divorced, and Edith as single; but Edith's name on the 1976 document is listed as "Edith Estelle Sawyers."