Esta Lee Edmonson

Esta Lee Edmonson was born May 23, 1920 in Kirkland, Texas. She was the daughter of the late Henry Herman and Arah Parker Swindle. She died Tuesday, April 17, 2012 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, at the age of 91. She was a homemaker and a member of Southside Baptist Church, Paris, Arkansas. She is preceded in death by her husband, Reverend Milton Edmonson; sisters, Wilma Vanderslice and Vera Edmonson.

She leaves behind three sons, Kenneth Neil Edmonson of Scranton, AR, Ronald Lee Edmonson of Oxford, NC, Milton Wray Edmonson of Neosho, MO; one daughter, Sandra Jean Dix of Conroe, TX; nine grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, nine great-great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Gene Edmonson of Hemphill, TX.

Visitation will be 6-8p.m., Friday, April 20, 2012, Roller-Cox Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, April 21, 2012, Roller-Cox Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend Jay Edmonson, Reverend Neil Edmonson, Kenneth Edmonson and Charles W. Edmonson officiating. Burial will be in the Lamar Cemetery, Lamar, Arkansas.

Pallbearers will be Jonathan Ely, Kenneth Edmonson, Charles Edmonson, Matt Brown, Stephen Brown, Kyle Shaw.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Jeffrey Brown, Brandon Vanderpool, Issac Sutton, Austin Wells, David Wells, Craig Straughn, Kevin Straughn and Jacob Edmonson.

Roller-Cox Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.