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- dith Almira Snodderly Burkhart, age 91, passed away peacefully on Aug. 15, 2009, at NHC Healthcare Facility in Cookeville.
Born April 26, 1918, at her family's farm on the banks of the Clinch River in Lost Creek, Tenn. in Union County, Edith was a resident of Loudon County for most of her life. Her parents, William Edgar Snodderly (1870-1953) and Linnie Belle Henegar Snodderly (1875-1974) were both descendants of the earliest settlers in Union County and were required to leave Union County when the TVA Norris Dam was constructed. They resettled in the Sugarlimb community in the 1930s and raised a family of six children.
Edith went to work in the knitting mill in Lenoir City and from her earnings, she electrified the house and the old Singer sewing machine, then bought her mother a washing machine and the family their first car. She was one of the first in Loudon County to get a driver's license.
Widow of Walter Leo Burkhart (1915-1990), Edith was a hairdresser for 43 years, owning Burkhart Beauty Shop in Lenoir City for over 40 years. Mother of five, (four born the first five years of marriage) she later would brag that she had four at UT at the same time. A member of the First Baptist Church in Lenoir City, she resided in the Eatons Cross Roads Community from the mid 1950s until 2006, when she moved to Cookeville to be near her daughter, Janet Biery.
Edith was preceded in death by her parents and husband; and by two brothers, John Ralph Snodderly (1920-1994) and George Silas Snodderly (1927-1987), both of Lenoir City; and most recently by her daughter, Linda Grace Burkhart (1953-2007) of Lancaster, Calif.
She is survived by her sisters, Orphia Hickey of Whitwell, Tenn. and Joan Gibson of Meridian, Miss.; by her brother, Effert Snodderly of Morristown, Tenn.; her children, George Burkhart and wife, Della of Lenoir City, LaVerne Cobb and husband, Quincy of Houston, Texas, Geneva White and husband, William of Buford, Ga., Janet Biery and husband, Jerry of Cookeville; her grandchildren, Christina Burkhart of Lenoir City, and Stephanie Bryant of Nashville (children of George), Andrea Cobb Mouring and husband, Lee of Oak Ridge, Aaron Cobb and wife, Franziska of Great Falls, Va. (children of LaVerne), Eric White of Apex, N.C. (son of Geneva), Nicholas Biery and wife, Ingrid of Westerville, Ohio and Sarah Biery of Knoxville (children of Janet), Paul Gregory of Nashville and Christian Grace Gregory and Mary Gregory, both of Long Beach, Calif. (children of Linda); her great-grandchildren, Elizabeth and Daniel Langley of Lenoir City (children of Christina), Alex, Isaac and Jacob Mouring of Oak Ridge (children of Andrea), Caitlyn and Kari Cobb of Virginia (children of Aaron) Julia, Karl, and Derek Biery of Westerville, Ohio (children of Nicholas), Abigail Menchaca and Emily Menchaca of Long Beach, Calif. (children of Christian Grace).
Funeral Services will be at Click's Funeral Home in Lenoir City at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, followed by graveside services. Dr. Dick DeMerchant will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21 and from 10 to 11 a.m. before the funeral on Saturday.
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