Edna Oaks
Edna Mae Alger Oaks, 87, went to be with the Lord on June 4, 2023, just one-fourth mile from where she entered the world. Edna was born to Arch Alger and Vanna Pearl Garrett Alger in Union City on Aug. 16, 1935.
On Oct. 14, 1952, Edna became engaged to Willard Ray Oaks as “On the Wings of a Snow White Dove” by Ferlin Husky serenaded the couple on the radio. She was a Union City High School senior at the time they became engaged, and she proudly graduated with salutatorian honors in the fall of 1952.