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...