Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Thursday, October 6, 2005

J.B. `Poe' Edgar

COLUMBIA -- Services were to be held at 3 p.m. today at Colonial Funeral Home for J.B. ``Poe'' Edgar, 69, of Columbia, who died Oct. 4, 2005, at Columbia Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Burial was to be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Mr. Edgar was a laborer at Orleans Furniture Co., and a member of the Columbia ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the Mississippi National Guard.

He was preceded in death by a son, Gilbert L. Disbrow.

Survivors include his wife, Winnie Duff Edgar of Columbia; two sons, Alan Disbrow of Columbia and Roy Edward Disbrow of Irving, Texas; a daughter, Linda Bertolino of League City, Texas; a brother, Joe Edgar; a sister, Emma Pritchard of Columbia; 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.