Edith Pullom

FOSTORIA -- Funeral services for Edith Fay Pullom, 87, of 725 Columbus Ave., Fostoria, and formerly of 614 Lynn St., will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church, Fostoria, the Revs. Henry I. Goodwin Jr. and T.A. Smith officiating. Burial will be in Fountain Cemetery, Fostoria. 

Visitation will be held from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Mann-Hare Funeral Home, Fostoria, where Eastern Star services will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday. 

Mrs. Pullom died at 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 at Good Shepherd Home, Fostoria. 

She was born May 25, 1914 in Harlan, Ky. to Henry and Eliza (Lewis) Creech. She married John N. Pullom Sr. in October 1935, and he died March 26, 1971. 

Survivors include three sons, William "Bunny" of Fostoria; John N. of Cairo, Egypt; Michael E. of Findlay; four daughters, Mrs. William (Juliana) Lawson and Brenda Anderson, both of Fostoria; Mrs. Henry (Marva "Cookie") Goodwin, Toledo; Rita K. Lincoln, Findlay; 21 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. Walter (Helen) Brown and Opal Miller, both of Louisville, Ky.; and Mrs. Paul (Jenell) Johnson, Berkeley, Calif. 

She was preceded in death by two sons, Donald and Maurice; a great-grandchild; two brothers, Horace and Merle Creech; and three sisters, Mae West, Verl Bailey and Hazel Clemens. 

Mrs. Pullom was a production welder for 22 years for General Electric, Tiffin, retiring in 1974. 

She graduated from Rosenwald High School, Harlan, Ky. 

She was a former member of First Baptist Church, Harlan, Ky. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Fostoria, where she was a former chairperson of the Building Fund Committee, a pianist, choir director and Missionary Board member. 

She also was a member of Eastern Star Chapter 93, Fostoria; past secretary for the local NAACP and the Longfellow PTA; and a former member of Longfellow Elementary School election board.