Edna Parker
Edna Parker passed away on the 26th November 2008 after she became Indiana’s oldest living person in 2005. She was raised in Shelby County, Indiana where she attended Franklin High School and Franklin College. Edna obtained her teaching certificate from the latter. She had two sons and a husband of which she outlived all three of them. She, later on, lived on a farm by herself on Blueridge road after her husband had passed.
After moving into her retirement home, she met with Bertha Fry – the second oldest living person in Indiana. Parker enjoyed reading anything that was the newspaper or poetry, her favorite work was by James Whitcomb Riley whom she would quote often. She was the recipient of the key to the city from the Shelbyville mayor and she also received a letter from George Bush on her 114th Birthday. These events occurred all before she passed at the age of 115 years, 220 days.