MAY 4 – Edward Clark Garnett, 89, of Farmville, died Saturday, May 1, 2010. He was born on September 12, 1920, the son of the late Edward Clark Garnett and Martha Blanton Garnett. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Elizabeth Garnett Miller and Martha Garnett Smith.

He is survived by his wife, Helen Vernon Garnett; son, David Edward Garnett and wife, Jane of Roanoke; daughter, Sandra Garnett Ellington and husband, Don of Farmville; brother, Wilson Blanton Garnett of Midlothian; five grandchildren, Martha Kent McMakin, Diana McMakin Dodson, Jason D. Garnett, Laura Ranzer, and Scott J. Garnett; and three great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Garnett Dodson, Jessica Gibson Dodson, and Alexander Austin Ranzer.

Services were conducted on Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. from Farmville Presbyterian Church with interment in Westview Cemetery, Farmville.

Doyne-Burger-Davis Funeral Home, Farmville, was in charge of arrangements.