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Mrs. Edna Anderson Stafford, age 74 of the Bradford Hill Community, died at 5:07 a.m. Wednesday morning December 1, 2021 at the Sumner Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Gallatin where she and her husband resided and where Mrs. Stafford was last admitted May 15, 2020.
Eld. Anthony Dixon officiated at the 1 p.m. Friday afternoon December 3rd funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed beside the father of her two sons in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
A chapel tribute to Mrs. Stafford's career in nursing was presented by the Tennessee Nurses Honor Guard.
The only child of the late Bilbrey Key (B. K.) "Hoover" Slatton who died at the age of 72 on August 5, 1997 and Lillie Mai West Slatton who died at the age of 75 on February 7, 2006, she was born Edna Faye Slatton at the former McFarland Hospital in Lebanon on July 7, 1947.
Following the death of the father of their two sons, Clarence D. Anderson who died November 16, 1978 at the age of 35, she was united in marriage on July 10, 1997 to Elbert Lee Stafford.
Mrs. Stafford was a 1965 graduate of Gordonsville High School and was a 1968 graduate of the Smith County Hospital nursing program taught by the late Mrs. Polly Beasley.
She was preceded in death by her two sons, Michael Scott "Mike" Anderson who was training officer for the Sumner County E. M.S. at the time of his death on July 20, 2014 at the age of 46 and Billy Charles Anderson who died May 16, 1989 at the age of 19.
Also preceding her in death was a grandson, Charles Calvin Anderson who died at the age of 1 day of age on September 5, 1991.
A daughter-in-law, Jamie Nadine Givens Anderson Knight died at the age of 46 on September 8, 2009.
Following being licensed by the State of Tennessee as a licensed Practical Nurse, she was employed at the former Smith County Hospital later called Smith County Memorial Hospital and now Riverview Regional Medical Center where she retired in 1999 with thirty three years of loyal and caring service in nursing care.
Something Mrs. Stafford was especially proud of was her involvement with the American Red Cross Blood Mobile, always volunteering her time as a nurse when the Blood Mobile was in Carthage.
Her only immediate survivor in addition to her husband of over twenty four years, Elbert, is her granddaughter and caregiver, Casey Logan Anderson Behrman and husband Matthew "Matt" of Gallatin.
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1947 - 2021 (74 years)
