Mrs. Edith Mae Meadows-Hartman, age 89 of Rexburg, Idaho, died on May 26, 2025, at the Homestead in Rexburg.
Edith was born April 28, 1936, in Franklin, W.Va., the oldest child of Okey Lee Simmons and Eva Mae Lambert Simmons. She has one surviving sibling, Jo Ann Nobles. She also had a younger brother, Charles Okey Simmons, who survived four days after birth.
She attended school in Accomack County, graduating from Onancock High School with honors.
On June 25, 1955, she married Floyd Claybon Meadows. She was the mother of one child, Keith Meadows, who currently resides in Rigby, Idaho. She had six grandchildren, Karli, Hailey, Kyle, Adam, Jason, and Aubrey, and four great-grandchildren.
After 37 years of marriage, Floyd passed away in October of 1992. Almost seven years later, she married a childhood friend, Ivan Leroy Hartman, on July 10, 1999. On April 6, 2015, Ivan passed away.
In her younger years, Edith worked at Campbell Soup, Hartford Insurance, and several medical offices, with the last being an orthopedic surgeon’s office that she dearly loved.
Edith had a number of hobbies, such as sewing, making many of her clothes, cake decorating, and working with various charitable groups.
In addition, Edith was a dog lover who had a number of dogs throughout her life that were treated very well and had the best life possible.
She was a longtime member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served in a number of callings. She was able to serve a service mission while married to Ivan.
Edith will be buried at Springhill Memory Gardens in Hebron, Md. Services will be scheduled at a later date.
