Obituary of Lila Bibbee Edmundson

May 31, 1933 – July 28, 2010 Visitation: Friends will be received at Advent Funeral Services 7211 Lee Highway, Falls Church, Virginia on Sunday, August 1st from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Service: Services will be held at the funeral home on Monday, August 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Mark Brasler officiating. Burial: Interment will follow at the National Memorial Park, 7400 Lee Hwy, Falls Church, Virginia. Lila Rae (Bibbee) Edmundson died on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 due to complications from liver cancer. She was preceded in death in 2003 by her husband, Edward Francis Edmundson. Her sisters who also preceded her were Helen Elizabeth, Emily Marie, Bessie Kathryn, Jane Effie and one brother, Robert Winfield Bibbee. She was the daughter of George McClinic Bibbee and Dove Ellen (Sager) Bibbee. She is survived by two sons, James Edward Edmundson and Jeffrey Allen Edmundson and one daughter, Cheryl Ann (Edmundson) Kelley. She had six grandchildren; the children of her son James are James Edward II and Erin Elizabeth Edmundson; the children of her son Jeffrey are Heather Lee and Hayley Rae Edmundson, and the children of her daughter Cheryl are Steven Edward and Daniel Christopher Kelley. Mrs. Edmundson was born May 31, 1933 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She came to Washington, D. C. in the 1950s to work for the Federal Government at the Pentagon, where she met her future husband. She married Edward Francis Edmundson on December 20, 1952 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. She later worked for the Arlington County, Virginia schools as a Food Service employee. She was a member of the Clarendon Baptist Church for many years. She lived most of her adult life in Falls Church, Virginia.