John Edwards, Jr., age 76, passed on August 20, 2024.
The funeral service will be held at 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at the Oglethorpe Funeral Chapel, Inc., 607 Kaigler Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Interment will follow in the Andersonville National Cemetery, 496 Cemetery Road, Andersonville, Georgia.
John was born December 10, 1947, in Reynolds, Georgia to the late John Allen Edwards and Eura Edwards.
John was educated in the public school system of Macon County, whereas he graduated from the historic D.F. Douglass High School in 1965. He enlisted in the United States Air Force on December 13, 1966, where he received an award for Air Force Commendation Medal. He was a Security Specialist and Supervisor. He served in the Vietnam War where he received the Vietnam Service Medical, a life member of the Veteran of Foreign War Post 3808 in Henderson Nevada.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Alonzo Edwards.
Survivors are his one daughter Teaunya Edwards, Wichita, Kansas; two granddaughters, Essence Brown and Cierra Williams both of Wichita, Kansas; a very devoted cousin Gwendolyn Callaway, Montezuma Georgia; and a host of other relatives and friends.
The funeral service will be held at 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at the Oglethorpe Funeral Chapel, Inc., 607 Kaigler Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Interment will follow in the Andersonville National Cemetery, 496 Cemetery Road, Andersonville, Georgia.
John was born December 10, 1947, in Reynolds, Georgia to the late John Allen Edwards and Eura Edwards.
John was educated in the public school system of Macon County, whereas he graduated from the historic D.F. Douglass High School in 1965. He enlisted in the United States Air Force on December 13, 1966, where he received an award for Air Force Commendation Medal. He was a Security Specialist and Supervisor. He served in the Vietnam War where he received the Vietnam Service Medical, a life member of the Veteran of Foreign War Post 3808 in Henderson Nevada.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Alonzo Edwards.
Survivors are his one daughter Teaunya Edwards, Wichita, Kansas; two granddaughters, Essence Brown and Cierra Williams both of Wichita, Kansas; a very devoted cousin Gwendolyn Callaway, Montezuma Georgia; and a host of other relatives and friends.
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