Edna Virginia BERRY

1918 - 2010  (92 years)

• Name	Edna Virginia BERRY
  Born	25 Mar 1918	Providence, RI
  Gender	Female
  Died	20 Nov 2010	Warwick, Kent Co., RI
  Buried	24 Nov 2010	Woodland Cemetery, Washington & Knotty Oak Sts., Coventry, RI
  Person ID	I00003	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	John Holland BERRY,   b. 29 Nov 1859, Fall River, Bristol Co., MA ,   d. 11 Jun 1929, Providence, RI  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Ellen COLEMAN,   b. 4 Apr 1877, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. 26 Oct 1953, Warwick, RI  (Age 76 years)
  Married	10 Sep 1912	Providence, RI
  Family ID	F00067	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Norman Chester REMINGTON,   b. 6 Aug 1918, Coventry, RI ,   d. 21 May 2007, Providence, RI  (Age 88 years)
  Married	6 Sep 1941	Providence, RI
  Notes	I have a copy of their marriage certificate. They were married three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor which brought America into World War II. Dad & Mom were engaged on 27 Jan 1941.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Ann Remington,   b. 27 Mar 1947, Providence, RI  (Age 78 years)   2. Russell Chester Remington,   b. 27 Jun 1948, Providence, RI  (Age 76 years)   3. Lois Edna REMINGTON,   b. 1 May 1951, Providence, RI  (Age 73 years)
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F00013	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Edna's shoes on the wrong feet?
  		Edna, front right, with Sunday School class in Providence.
  		Little Edna with her mom, Ellen.
  		Edna age 4 in a pretty yellow dress, 1922.
  		Helen, Elsie, and Edna, about 1924
  		Elsie and Edna, around 1925
  		Edna with friends in Providence.
  		Edna and Loretta with their mom "Nellie"
  		Edna with friends, maybe at Lincoln Woods?
  		Helen on left, Edna on right
  		The Berry sisters
  		High school graduation portrait, 1935-36, the old Hope High School in Providence.
  		Hope High School, Providence, RI, 1936
  		Edna at Wheaton College, Illinois, c1936-1937
  		Edna Berry, age 21 Senior portrait, 1939-40, Wheaton College, Illinois. My mom majored in zoology and went on to RI Hospital School of nursing, but she dropped out to marry Norman.
  		Some of Edna's report cards from Wheaton
  		1940, Wheaton College, Illinois; Mom was there when Billy Graham and his wife-to-be Ruth were there.
  		Edna's graduation program
  		Edna majored in zoology and graduated with honors.
  		Congratulatory telegram from Norman, her beau.
  		Norman and Edna
  		Family, l-r: Edna, Grandma Berry, Norman, Elsie, Albert holding Allan, David in front, Loretta, and Helen. I guess this must have been taken in spring or summer 1942, just before Norman enlisted in the Army, WW II.
  		Remington family 1942
  		1942
  		Norman and Edna with their two mothers, Laura and Ellen
  		Pretty outfit, 1944
  		Loretta and Edna, 1944.
  		My Grandpa Remington with two of his daughters-in-law, Fran and Edna, 1945
  		Aunt Fran, Grandma Remington, and my mom Edna, 1945
  		Loretta and Edna
  		Loretta, Helen, and Edna, December 1945
  		Elsie and Edna
  		Edna and friends on front steps of the old Cornerstone Church, Providence, 1940s
  		Probably during the war.
  		Berry sisters and friends, l-r: Aunt Helen (Berry) Kettell, Ruth Stevens, Loretta (Berry) and Pat Mitola, Edna (Berry) Remington, "Auntie" Leah Clark; likely on Westminster St., Providence, Dec 1945
  		My pretty Mommy
  		1946
  		Baby Elizabeth with Mom Remington
  		Russell with Grandma Berry and Mom Remington.
  		Baby Lois with Mom Remington and Grandma Berry, 1951.
  		Me (Lois) as a baby, c1952, with my parents and Ruth Ella.
  		Four generations, 1954
  		Easter 1955
  		Easter 1957, Norman's and Raymond's families with Grandma
  		My Grandma Remington and Mom Remington, June 1966.
  		The four Berry sisters
  		Mom c1970.
  		Aunt Jackie, Aunt Fran, my mom Edna, and Aunt Lillian
  		Norman & Edna's 40th anniversary, 6 September 1981
  		Sorensen and Remington grandparents with all the kids, c1983
  		Sorensen kids with Grandma Edna Remington, March 1985
  		Summer 1985
  		August 1988
  		1990, 50th Wheaton College reunion
  		September 1991
  		Family September 1991
  		Heidi's graduation from Houghton Academy, 1991
  	Cousins getting together in California: Norman Remington, Austin Chafee, Austin's first wife Patricia, Edna Remington, and Lois.
  	January 2000
  	Dan with Grandma Remington.
  	Family, September 2001
  	Mom, 2002.
  	Laura with Grandma Remington
  	Edna and Patty
  	Norman and Edna, 2004 Berry family reunion
  	Four generations, December 2005
  	Edna and Norman Remington, bro Richard Remington, Dan Sorensen, at 87 Darrow Dr.
  	2001
  	April 1946, the day Edna sang at Charlotte Thorpe's wedding
  	Edna and Loretta, New Year's Day 1946

  
  

• Notes

  My Mom says: Until I was about ten years old, the only heat we had as I remember was the kitchen stove. On Saturday nights we took our baths in a big tin tub such as we have in our back yard here. We had our hair washed and fine combed to see if we had acquired any critters during the week at school. My parents slept in a room off the kitchen, but the rest of us were upstairs in two bedrooms where there was no heat. I think we closed off the parlor most of the time. It was a very small house. Mom noted in her birthday book that she was born on a Monday.