Funeral Information
Location:
Osceola Memory Gardens
Date: 05-21-2023
Time: 11:00 AM
Time: 11:00 AM
Visitation Information
Location:
Osceola Memory Gardens 16505 NW 27th Avenue Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Date: 05-26-2023
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Obituary
Edna May Ewing (maiden name Allen) was born on June 21, 1931 to parents, Isilda McIntosh and Nathaniel Allen in the countryside of St. Mary, Jamaica. She was primarily raised by her grandparents, Angelina Walker and Israel McIntosh. She worked as a washer lady, then worked in a hospital cafeteria, as well as the hospital’s research lab at the University of the West Indies Hospital. She had 7 children with her husband, Clinton Alphonso Ewing. She did the best she knew to raise them with what she had. And she always “tek her hand and turn mek fashion.”
She frequently opened the doors of her home to people from the countryside in Jamaica. And many times had people’s children from the country living in her home to help their families through hard times. She loved to talk and loved to cook. She made an unmatched tasty hominy corn porridge that everyone loved.
She was known for her intuitive skills with Jamaican herbal remedies (bush medicine). When she retired and moved to Florida. She made fast friends with her doctors and nurses. She knew everyone at her clinic and would bring them plants for healing all kinds of illnesses. She was lovingly called the “plant lady.” She became a regular speaker with medical students and spoke to them about the benefits of integrating natural plants with western medicine, long before integrative medicine was popular. Edna Ewing loved to talk and made strangers into friends. She spent her retired years in Florida talking to elderly residents in her apartment building, writing letters to friends around the world, gardening on her small apartment patio, going to church at Greater Bethel AME, cooking at home, going out to feed the homeless and volunteering at Camillus House.
Edna Ewing returned to the love of her Creator on April 7, 2023. She was preceded in death by husband, Clinton Ewing, grandson, Dwayne Grigg and daughter, Monica Fay Ewin. She leaves behind 6 children, Willesley Ewing, Avis Ewing (Gage), Marcia Ewen, Frederick Ewing, Donald Ewing and Lorna Ewing, 23 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. We are thankful for our queen matriarch, for the time we had her in our lives, for the foundation she built and the legacy she left us. We will continue to build and make her proud.
She frequently opened the doors of her home to people from the countryside in Jamaica. And many times had people’s children from the country living in her home to help their families through hard times. She loved to talk and loved to cook. She made an unmatched tasty hominy corn porridge that everyone loved.
She was known for her intuitive skills with Jamaican herbal remedies (bush medicine). When she retired and moved to Florida. She made fast friends with her doctors and nurses. She knew everyone at her clinic and would bring them plants for healing all kinds of illnesses. She was lovingly called the “plant lady.” She became a regular speaker with medical students and spoke to them about the benefits of integrating natural plants with western medicine, long before integrative medicine was popular. Edna Ewing loved to talk and made strangers into friends. She spent her retired years in Florida talking to elderly residents in her apartment building, writing letters to friends around the world, gardening on her small apartment patio, going to church at Greater Bethel AME, cooking at home, going out to feed the homeless and volunteering at Camillus House.
Edna Ewing returned to the love of her Creator on April 7, 2023. She was preceded in death by husband, Clinton Ewing, grandson, Dwayne Grigg and daughter, Monica Fay Ewin. She leaves behind 6 children, Willesley Ewing, Avis Ewing (Gage), Marcia Ewen, Frederick Ewing, Donald Ewing and Lorna Ewing, 23 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. We are thankful for our queen matriarch, for the time we had her in our lives, for the foundation she built and the legacy she left us. We will continue to build and make her proud.