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Edith Akuna
Edith Akuna,
69, passed peacefully in her sleep on April 11, 2005
at 2:45 a.m. at the Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Peas" as she was
known to her family, "Eddie" as friends called her and "Moms" to the
younger folks, was loved and respected by many.
She did not
believe in limitations.
Edith was born in
Alabama, spent her early years in St. Louis, moved to Los Angeles
where she married Vernon Akuna (deceased).
They had three
beautiful, children, Sherwood Akuna of Lake Havasu City, AZ,
Sherwin Akuna of Victorville, California and Shawna Akuna
(deceased).
Her children gave
her wonderful (the kind one prays for) grand children, Neisha,
Crystal and April Akuna.
Her grand children
gave her great grands, Starr, Jon Pierre, Malik and CorLee, who
brought even deeper joy in her soul.
This was extremely
important to her because in the previous six years she lost her
mother, Nan Pruit, her daughter Shawna, her Aunt Gert, her Brother
in love Ronnie, and her husband (though divorced, neither did re-mary).
Her instructions are:
Pray
to the
Holy Father
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How She Passed
Edith, who was otherwise healthy,
died of squamous cell cancer (SCC) the kind that results from chemical
and petroleum by-products exposure. SCC is usually a skin
cancer. She had it internally.
In the 1980's Edith worked for
General Motors in Van Nuys, CA. Her job on the finishing
line was to put the stickers on new cars,
approving the engine worked. She also pumped gas into the cars for part of her
time there. To do her job, Edith breathed the chemicals off the new,
starting cars and from
the gasoline for years. After developing respiratory
problems,
she was put on complete disability about 12 years ago. Because she breathed the
chemicals, the SCC was on the outside of her internal organs.
She had a mass that went from the top of her neck down her right lung,
a second tumor lower on her lungs and one on each kidney. After a seven week
fight, she passed from SCC.
Extra prayers are being said
for other General Motors employees and their families who were in
the same area she was at various plants. General Motors knew
she was a smoker and knew she lived in a high risk area when they
hired her. The six
member Akuna family also lived next to a refinery in Carson,
California in the 1970's. Within a seven year period her
mother Tutu passed in '98 - bladder cancer, daughter Shawna in '99 -
brain hemorrhage / secondary infection picked up from the hospital,
Russell '01, and Edith '05, died. The two still alive, her sons
Sherwood and Sherwin, spent the least amount of time living in the
house.
Was it chemicals she brought
home on her, the refinery, both or more is still being researched.
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