Mrs. Annie Lou McGahee Edge, age 96 of the Kibbee Community passed away on Monday morning, August 31, 2020 at the Oaks Bethany Health and Rehabilitation Center in Vidalia.

A native and lifelong resident of Montgomery County she was the eldest and last living of four children born to the late Willie and Becky Brantley McGahee. At the age of 12, her mother passed away and she assumed the role of a mother; washing, cooking, tending to younger siblings, all the time working in the fields with her father. In 1944 she married Treutlen County native, Ervin Edge, and made their home in the Kibbee Community. She worked at Oxford Textile in Vidalia for approximately fifteen years before substituting for her husband as a bus driver for the Montgomery County School System.   She drove children to and from school until reaching the age of 65 when she started working in the Cafeteria in Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Edge was a two time cancer survivor, blueberry farmer and accomplished seamstress; sewing wedding dresses, men's suits, and children's clothes out of flour sacks. She enjoyed being a servant and caregiver to others; always opening her home to family members and community members in need. She had been a longtime member of Vidalia Church of God where she taught the seven and eight year old Sunday School Class for 61 years. She was a committed Prayer Warrior and her life's goal was to see others led to know her Lord.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Ervin Edge, who passed away in 2008, her sisters, Jeweldean Hutcheson, Pauline Hutcheson, her brother, James Richard McGahee, two nephews, Paul McGahee and Wayne Marsh and son in laws, Gary Osborne and Floyd Wilcox.

Mrs. Edge leaves behind her daughters, Faye Wilcox, Alston, GA, Barbara Kersey (Leroy), Kibbee Community, GA, four grandchildren, Scarlett McDaniel (James), Calhoun, GA, Chris "Taco" Osborne (Amy), Alston, GA, Lisa Miller (Ed), Savannah, GA, Brian Kersey (Delores), Kibbee Community, GA, six great grandchildren, Emily Osborne, Alston, GA, Morgan Osborne, Alston, GA, Spencer McDaniel, Calhoun, GA, LillyAnna McDaniel, Calhoun, GA, Hunter Kersey, Kibbee Community, GA, Haleigh Garcia (Gabe), Crestview, FL, a sister in law, Merle Williamson (Kenneth), Tarrytown, GA, a brother in law, Harold Edge (Elder), Kibbee Community, GA and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 am on Thursday, September 3, 2020 from the graveside in Braddy Cemetery, Kibbee Community with Reverend Wayne Merritt, Reverend Kevin Collins and Reverend Nathan Pittman officiating.

Mrs. Edge will be laid to rest beside her husband.

Her family wishes to express their thanks to the nurses and staff of the Oaks Bethany Health and Rehabilitation Center for the compassionate care that they provided to Mrs. Edge.

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