Born in Deerfield, Kearny, Kansas, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Milton Allen
and Jennie Bell (Bloomer) Allen
Sister of
Bertha Grace (Allen) Stevens, Edward Raymond Allen, John Joseph Allen, Milton Roy Allen, Mary Ethel (Allen) Fehrenbach, Nora Pearl (Allen) Wilcox, Nellie May (Allen) Bacon, Warren Bloomer - Blair Allen, Ruth Evelyn (Allen) Ekstrom and Glenn Allen
Wife of
Arthur Leslie Crabb
— married
11 Mar 1928 in Syracuse, Hamilton, Kansas, United States
Descendants 
Died
at age 88
in Osage City, Osage, Kansas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Sep 2019
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Biography
Edna was born in 1907. She passed away in 1995. The family moved from Garden City, Kansas to Derby, Kansas so Edna could work in the Beech aircraft plant in Wichita, Kansas during WWII. Becoming a senior sheet metal assemblyman in 1942. Then she worked for the post office in Derby as a clerk, working her way to assistant postmaster before she retired in 1969. She was a charter member of Rebecca Lodge in Derby Kansas. She traveled extensively in her senior years going to Egypt, Israel and across Canada on a train to name just a few adventures. She spent her last years in an Osage City, Kansas nursing home because her surviving child, Shirley moved to that part of the state and wanted to be nearby. She was buried on the family plot, purchased when her son Eldon died at the El Paso Cemetery in Derby, Kansas.
Sources
Firsthand knowledge, my maternal grandmother
1910; Census Place: Sherlock, Finney, Kansas; Roll: T624_439; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0042; FHL microfilm: 1374452
1920; Census Place: Ivanhoe, Finney, Kansas; Roll: T625_532; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 47
1930; Census Place: Garden, Finney, Kansas; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 0002; FHL microfilm: 2340437
1940; Census Place: Garden City, Finney, Kansas; Roll: m-t0627-01231; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 28-1
1950; Census Place: Derby, Kansas, Sedgwick, Kansas; Enumeration District: 87-61
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edna:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edna:
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~25.00%
~25.00%
Sue Hayden 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZE1468921 [compare], Ancestry member suezieman
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~0.78%
Tom Allen :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch 919a86d9 [compare], Ancestry member ThomasAllen68
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She did live and read it and saved it so now I may also read it and see my great-grandfathers handwriting.