Edith R. Rasmussen, age 78, Laguna Vista, TX, joined the Choir of Angels in the Lord’s Mansion on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, TX. She had been admitted to the hospital in the early evening, Wednesday, Dec. 21, following an attempted radiation treatment of her left lung. Complications developed and she was later transferred to the MICU. She had survived two other battles with cancer and her family thought she would also survive this one. She was born Jan. 24, 1938, to parents Lloyd Dennis and Marion Young (Love) Wilkinson in Clearlake, SD. Her family was 10 children, eight daughters and two sons.
Her parents farmed near Clearlake, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse. When she was eight, her family moved to Soquel, CA. She recalled that the kids called them “Oakies” as from the book, Grapes of Wrath. Schools were taught in shifts, 6 to
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