Mom’s Family Album — Barbara Edens Woods

Made for Mom — born June 27, 1957, the youngest of Kermit & Hazel’s ten children. This album will grow as more photographs are found, so she can sit and reminisce whenever she likes.

See the family tree — Kermit and Hazel’s family, back to 1836.

A family reunion

Mom’s brothers and sisters together at a family reunion.

Remastered version of the family reunion photograph: the same seven siblings, now sharp and clear — five sisters on the left and two brothers on the right — **The reunion, remastered.** The same photograph, cleaned up and sharpened — the sisters on the left, the brothers on the right.

Left to right: Kay Owens, Carol Edens Westrick, Lois Suter, Jewel Ramsey, Nadine Suter, Darrel Edens, and Boyce Edens.

In loving memory of Kay, Lois, Jewel, Nadine, and Boyce.

Mom’s parents — Kermit and Hazel

Kermit Elijah Edens (December 20, 1913 – August 26, 1978), buried at Louthan Cemetery, Hancock County, Tennessee. Hazel Rebecca Hopkins Edens (July 10, 1919 – September 27, 1997), buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Milton, Kentucky. They married August 1, 1935.

The mule collar story. A vintage newspaper strip, “Brothers-in-Law In Shooting Affray,” tells of Kermit, 31, wounded by a shotgun blast fired by his brother-in-law and next-door neighbor R. L. “Bob” Combs, 55, in the Beech Grove community of Jonesville, over a dispute about a mule collar. Kermit was treated at Lee General Hospital; Combs was arrested and released under bond.

Mom’s brothers and sisters — all ten

Kermit and Hazel’s ten children, named in the family obituaries. Mom is the youngest.

Jewell Annette Ramsey — June 8, 1936 – April 3, 2008
Lois Jean Suter — about 1938 – March 24, 2025
Loretta Kay Owens — March 1, 1944 – December 25, 2020
Lowell Thomas Edens — 1946 – September 29, 1969
Barry Marshall Edens — 1948 – 1948, as a baby
Boyce Bailey Edens — January 5, 1949 – August 27, 2015
Leslie Darrell Edens Sr. — born September 6, 1951, living in Bedford, Kentucky
Alma Nadine Suter — November 7, 2017, buried in New Haven, Kentucky — photo, summer 2017
Anita Carol Westrick — living in Milton, Kentucky
Barbara Lynn Woods — born June 27, 1957, living in Eminence, Kentucky — Mom

Listed in approximate birth order. Years marked “about” are worked out from ages in the obituaries, not exact dates.

Mom loved Lowell and Barry dearly.

Photos and records on Facebook:

A game of cornhole

Denny Woods and his cousin Ricky Louden — Kay’s son — playing cornhole at the Edens Family Reunion, July 16, 2009, at Butler Park in Carrollton, Kentucky. Mom organized the reunion.

Denny Woods and his cousin Ricky Louden playing cornhole on a grassy park lawn at a family reunion, with cornhole boards set up and family nearby — **Denny and Ricky, playing cornhole.** The Edens Family Reunion, July 16, 2009, at Butler Park in Carrollton, organized by Mom. The full album (50 photos) is on Facebook.

Seven of Mom’s brothers and sisters are in this photograph — not all of them. More photographs will be added as they are found.