Edna B. Higginbotham, 84; of New Albany
Funeral services for Edna B. Higginbotham, 84, of New Albany, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Seabrook Dieckmann & Naville Funeral Homes, Oak Street Chapel, New Albany, with private burial. She died Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at Flaget Memorial Hospital, Bardstown, Ky.
She was the former Edna Brian, a native of Louisville, a retired telephone operator from the Southern Bell Telephone Company after 32 years of service and a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
Survivors include her brother, Kenneth Brian and his wife, Juanita; nephews, Gary Brian and his wife, Sue, Kenneth Brian Jr. and his wife, Pam, and Rev. Kevin Brian and his wife, Betsy; and niece, Lisa Dierson and her husband, Dennis.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester Higginbotham; and her parents, Adrian and Maude Brian.
Visitation will be at the funeral home from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the New Albany-Floyd County Animal Shelter.
