LALE, Edith Leora, 110, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at Treyton Oak Towers, where she had been a resident for over 30 years.

She was born March 10, 1905 on the family farm, four and half miles east of Odessa, MO to the late Thomas Newman Lale and Nellie Doty Lale. From 1913-1919, Edith attended Rural Weaver School and high school in Odessa. She went on to Missouri Valley College, transferring her junior year to Kansas State Agricultural College, where she earned her B.S. in Home Economics.

Edith had no occupation, but always kept her fingers busy. Her sewing machine was never closed, neither was her typewriter, which she used to write many stories of family farm life and genealogy. She became a research associate in the published genealogy “The Lagle/Lale Family in America”, contributing the chapter “Kentucky to Missouri, 1858”. She also volunteered at Word and Work Book Store and was a member of the Church of Christ in Odessa and Louisville.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Mildred Florence Lale.

She is survived by her cousins, Ann Friend Newton, John and Charles Schooley, and Sandra Faust.
Visitation will be at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, from 9:30am Saturday until the funeral service at 11am. Burial will in Odessa Cemetery, Odessa, MO.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to Portland Christian School, 2500 Portland Avenue, Louisville, KY 40212 or the charity of your choice.

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