Edith Mae (Bradshaw) Sinning

Edith Mae Sinning, daughter of the late John Benjamin and Thula (Etheridge) Bradshaw, was born June 5, 1937 in Norwood, Missouri and departed this life suddenly on August 16, 2012 in Springfield, Missouri. She was 75 years, 2 months, and 11 days of age.


Edith grew up in Norwood and graduated from Norwood High School. She married James “Jim” Sinning on April 28, 1956 in Hernandez, Mississippi. Two children were born to this union. Edith and Jim were married for 56 years.

In her younger years, Edith enjoyed playing competitive volleyball, singing, and recording her own records. She was an avid writer of short stories and poems, and was constantly putting things on paper. Edith greatly enjoyed gardening, canning, baking, cooking, and was well known for her yeast rolls and desserts. She would also go into the woods and fields and gather wild mushrooms and native herbs to use in her cooking as taught to her by her father, John Benjamin. She loved spending time involved in crafts including: embroidery, ceramics, and flower arranging. She also loved growing flowers and collecting unusual and local native species. In past years, she was a member of the Neighborly Ladies Club.

Besides her parents, Edith was preceded in death by five brothers: John, Donald, Lester, Eugene, and Lee Bradshaw; and by an infant sister: Mary Francis Bradshaw.


She is survived by her husband, Jim Sinning; her son: Doug Sinning and Victor Zeno of Oviedo, Florida; her daughter: Debbra and Jerry Buchholz of Mountain Grove; three grandchildren: Larissa Buchholz of Jacksonville, Florida, Kayla and Aaron Hancock of Columbus, Ohio, and Katrina and Derek Selsor of St. Louis, Missouri; one great-grandchild: Rosalin Hancock; one brother: Luther and Pauline Bradshaw of Norwood; two sisters: Juanita Sinning of Norwood, and Betty Davidson of Mountain Grove; and many other relatives and friends.

Memorial Contributions:
Wright County Children’s Home c/o the funeral home.