Edna A. Hines

Edna A. Hines, age 91, died in Corsicana, Texas on May 16th.  She was born to Fred M. Barritt and Pearl Allan Stanley in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, November 6, 1925.  Edna's great grandmother, Nancy Ralston (adopted name) as a young girl was the family's Creek and Cherokee member separated from then by history's Trail of Tears. At age 19 Edna left Oklahoma for Indiana to help care for her sister and sister-in-law.  In Indiana, Edna met and married Leo Walker Hines who worked with Edna's brother at Conoco Oil following their tours of service in WWII.  They had five children. Mollie and Leo Jr, born in Evansville, Indiana and John, Mary and James, born in Decatur, Illinois.  Family was her life.  At one point, they had their children in four different schools.  Until Leo Sr.'s death in 1972, one rarely saw them as a couple without their children.  The family moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1966.  Edna was very active in school and church activities as a member of the catholic churches in Mowequa, ILL., Assumption, Ill., Wewoka, and  Shawnee, OK.Edna was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, all five siblings - Charles Prindle, James and Cecil Barritt, Alice Williams, and Josephine Hopper, granddaughter Angela Hines and son John Hines.  She is survived by daughters Mollie Buthod, Mary Hines and sons Leo Jr. and James; 8 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great- grandchild.Wake and Rosary will be 7:00 p.m. Friday, May 19 at St. Benedict's (632 N. Kickapoo, Shawnee).  Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 20, also at St. Benedict's.  Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery next to her husband.