HAINES CITY - Virginia Nell Edwards, 86, of Bellflower, California, died May 7, 2009, in Haines City, Florida near her loving family.

She was born November 4, 1922 in Mansfield, Arkansas to Greene F. and Cora Harland Bethel. Virginia retired after working some 25 years as a clerk in the pharmaceutical industry and she was of the Protestant faith. Virginia was a loving woman who was full of life, she believed in living life to it’s fullest. She was also a generous woman who was proud of her husband being a veteran and donated to the Veterans in numerous ways.

Her husband, Wilford Edwards, predeceases her and she is survived by many nieces and nephews and numerous great nieces and great nephews.