Joan Sanders Edwards

Funeral services for Joan Sanders Edwards, 90, of Beaumont, will be held Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in the Claybar Kelley-Watkins Chapel. Interment will follow in Haven of Rest Cemetery. A gathering of family and friends will be Wednesday from 4-6:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Joan Sanders Edwards came to Beaumont in 1948 as a bride and has lived here 66 years. Joan was born in Malakoff on Thanksgiving Day November 27, 1924. She started to school at Rice, Texas and graduated from High School at Waskom, Texas in 1942. She went to College of Marshall and graduated in 1944. After graduation she went to Washington D.C. and worked for the Navy Dept. When she came home she enrolled at East Texas Teachers College at Commerce, Texas and graduated from there in 1947. She taught at Detroit, Texas for 3 years.

In Beaumont she stayed home for 8 years to raise her 2 sons – Bobby and James Edwards. In 1956 she started her teaching career at Junker school in Kindergarten. She taught at B .I.S.D. for 28 years teaching Kindergarten at Eugene Field, Edwards and French Elementary schools, ending at Field for last 20 years.

Joan was an avid sports fan. She went to every game her sons were involved with. When her grandsons were born, Dustin & Kaz, she went to all their games, especially Soccer.

She was preceded in death by her husband, R.M. (Bob) Edwards of 47 years, her parents, J.C.R. and Eula Bell (Roan) Sanders, 2 brothers, James R. Sanders, killed n World War 11, John Henry Sanders and sister, Mary Beth (Becky) Adams from Columbus Georgia

She is survived by two sons, Robert M. “Bobby” Edwards, Jr. and wife, Jamie of Austin, James Edwards and wife, Pamala of Beaumont; 2 grand sons and daughters-in-law, Dustin and Alison Edwards of Houston, Kaz and Mary Edwards of Houston; and 3 great-grandchildren, Sean Edwards, Ali Edwards and Mattie Edwards.