Mrs Edna Parker Chiddick was born on 3rd August 1923 but her birth was registered on 18th August 1923.
The only child of Mrs Margaret Benjamin Simon and Mr Thomas Parker of Ebenezer, she is the mother of 13, children, the grandmother of 26, great-grandmother of 28 and the great-great-grandmother of one.
A God-fearing, praying woman who laboured faithfully in her Lord’s vineyard, Mrs Chiddick was an active and dedicated Greenbay Moravian church women’s fellowship member for many years. She sang in the choir, attended Sunday school, and visited and ministered to the shut-ins.
Her unwavering faith in God has enabled her to attain contentment, peace and inner harmony. Her inner strength and tenacity spring from her well of personal prayer and time spent with her Lord. She had learnt over the years to turn the noise of life into the music she wants to hear, she is always singing her favourite songs such as Trust and obey, God holds the key of all unknown, It’s not an easy road, I’m a child of a king, and When they ring the golden bells for you and me.
Mrs Chiddick, who knows pain and sorrow having buried her husband and three sons has placed her future in God’s hand as she presses on.
She has become her children’s seamstress, role model, confidant, counsellor, friend and prayer warrior. Her children are united because she made them this way.
To her family, she is truly a Proverbs 31 woman. Her price is far above rubies.
