Edith Marie Childress

September 25, 1932 - April 27, 2017

Edith Marie Childress age 84, of Louisville, Kentucky passed away Thursday, April 27, 2017 at the Signature Health Care Center in Louisville, Kentucky. She was born September 25, 1932 at Burke, Kentucky a daughter of the late Edward L. and Stella Boggs Gillum. Edith was a Retired employee of the American Air Filter in Louisville, Kentucky, she was a member of the Ormsby Heights Baptist Church, she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her loving husband Lilbon Childress, one brother: Billy L. Gillum, one sister: Lillian Pauline Thompson, two brother-in-laws: Eldon Roe, Frank Thompson. She is survived by two sons: David (Frances) Childress of Huntington, West Virginia, John Childress (Teresa) of Louisville, Kentucky, three sisters: Juanita Roe of Elliottville, Kentucky, Myrtle (Charles) Sparks of Sandy Hook, Kentucky, Diana ( Willie) Markwell of Dayton, Ohio, several nieces and nephews, along with a host of family and friends that will sadly mourn her passing. Funeral arrangements will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30, 2017 in the Chapel of Waddell & Whitt Funeral Home in Sandy Hook, Kentucky with Brother Franklin Gillum officiating. Burial will follow in the Boggs Family Cemetery in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Friends may visit after 11 a.m. Sunday at the funeral home until the service hour. Serving as pallbearers will be Gary Roe, Chuck Sparks, Curtis Markwell, Jeffery Wilmoth, Steven Whitt, Charles Sparks, Clavis Dickerson.