Edna Burrows

Edna M. Burrows Milton - Edna M. Burrows, 91 of Milton passed away on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at Riverside Rest Home. She was born February 4, 1927 in Goshen, NH to Ivan and Doris Scranton. She lived in Goshen, West Boxford, Massachusetts, Farmington, NH and Milton NH. She graduated from Farmington High School. Her childhood during the Great Depression shaped her to be a resourceful person relying more on herself than any other person. She sewed clothes for herself and her children, knitted hats and mittens, and she grew and canned her own food. She loved her flowers and had them growing in multiple places on the homestead.  Orchids, iris and roses were favorites. She had a quince bush that just would not flower. She swears the year she kicked it and said, bloom, dammit, that it gave her an abundance of color every year thereafter. After high school, she worked in the shoe shops that were plentiful in the area. As she started her family she was a stay at home mother for many years, prior to going back to work in the shoe shop and then earning her certification as a nurse's aide and beginning work at Riverside Rest Home. She was immensely proud of her efforts toward a successful campaign to obtain the very first activities bus for the residents. She was an avid reader all of her life of both of fiction and non-fiction, with her favorite being mystery stories. She would read the first chapter, the last chapter, a couple chapters in the middle and then start at the beginning again. If a publisher changed the cover, she often found herself buying the same book only to realize she already read it. Edna was active and served a couple of terms as President of the Milton Women's Club. She also cooked and served for the monthly ham and bean suppers for the VFW Post in Farmington. One of the gentleman who picked up her contributions after she stopped driving made her a wooden box to hold the bean pots, labeling it "Edna's Bean Box." In addition to her parents and step parents John Whittier and Ruth Scranton, she was predeceased by her husband Francis Bartlett, ex-husband George Hagen, husband George Burrows, daughter Joy Anne Hagen, granddaughter Carin Hagen, daughter Susan Tompson, son Jeffrey Hagen. Also predeceased by sister, Susan Davis, and brothers, Richard and Robert Scranton. She is survived by children Sandra Davis of Somersworth, NH; Judith (Sheldon) Morgan of Gilford, NH; Eileen (Norman) Chapdelaine of Gonic, NH: Stephen (Cindy A.) Hagen of Rochester, NH; Evelyn (Dean) Dore of Rochester, NH; Rebecca (Robert) Warburton of Milton, NH; Jennifer Abell of Rochester, NH; and Kathryn (William) Morgan of Dover, NH. Also survived by son-in-law Steven Tompson and daughter-in-law Eva Desrosier. She leaves a legacy of twenty grandchildren - Elyane Davis, Heather Chandonnait, Rene and Luke Chapdelaine, Eric, Melissa and Tyler Hagen, Bethany Perez, Gregory and Seth Hagen, Joshua and Jordan Hagen and Jenny Allume, Ed and Anthony Gautreau, Courtney Corbett, Travis Tompson, Derek and Brian Warburton, Channing Burrows. She also leaves 16 great grandchildren. She is survived by sisters Letitia LaFountain, Janet Berget and Sandra Woods as well as brother in laws and many nieces and nephews. ------ SERVICES: A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 12 P.M., with visitation held two hours prior in the chapel of the R.M. Edgerly & Son Funeral Home, 86 South Main St, Rochester, N.H. 03867. Internment at the Hayes Cemetery in Milton, NH. Flowers are welcome, or memorial donations are graciously accepted to the Riverside Rest Home resident activities fund c/o of June McLaughlin, Director, 276 County Farm Road, Dover, NH 03820 or to the Milton Free Public Library Attention of Betsy Baker, Director, at 13 Main Street, Milton, Mills, NH 03852.