Edna McCord

Edna McCord

Edna McCord went to be with the Lord on Thursday, August 18, 2016. She was born in Kankakee, Illinois and celebrated her joyful 99th Birthday on July 8, 2016, with family and friends.

Edna was married for thirty-two years to Eugene McCord.  For some years they owned and operated the Bloomington Dairy Queen. Edna was a member of the Bloomington Free Methodist Church. She shared many of her talents by singing in the church choir and participating in ladies missionary, Sweet Adelines, Red Hats, Bloomington Town and Country Home Extension, Monroe County Fair and Indiana State Fair.  Edna volunteered at the Bloomington Hospital Gift Shop and won many awards for preparing her outstanding recipes.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Eugene McCord, her parents, Walter Bowman and Sarah Louise Gagnon, beloved grandson, David McCord, three brothers and two sisters. 

Edna is survived by her daughter, Marjorie (Robert) Johnson, Nederland, Texas, her son, Ronald (Peggy) McCord, Stuart, Florida, her son, Leslie (Barbara) McCord, Bloomington, Indiana, and her sister-in-law, Marie McCord, Oakland City, Indiana. She was proud of her Grandchildren, Kelli (Michael) Jackson, Brentwood Tennessee, Kristi (Blake) Dunkleberger Port Neches, Texas, Matthew McCord and, Katie McCord, Stuart, Florida, Jeffrey McCord and Brian McCord, Bloomington, Indiana. Edna has eight great-grandchildren, Lauren, Sydney, Hayden, Austin and Natalie Jackson and Brendan, Brooklyn and Brylee Dunkleberger.  

We thank you all for loving our mother.

Please join our family in celebrating her life. Her graveside service will be conducted 11:00 a.m., Saturday, August 27, 2016, at Walnut Hill Cemetery, 1108 North Vincennes Avenue, Petersburg, Indiana. A memorial service will be conducted by Pastor Zack Martin and Associate Pastor Les Rovenstine, 3:00 p.m., at Bloomington Free Methodist Church, 1121 South Lincoln Street, Bloomington, Indiana.