Phoebe Edna Williams Curl, 94, of Fayetteville, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, in Highsmith-Rainey Hospital. Edna was born June 2, 1912 in Kinston to the late John Enoch and Lizzie Anne Ford Williams, the youngest of three children. The family moved to Greensboro a few years later where she grew up and went on to become a 1933 graduate in Public School Music from the Women's College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From Greensboro the family moved to Fayetteville where they resided at Doodle Hill Farm, currently the site of Cablevision. The family was quite active in the Universalist Church all those years. After graduation, Edna taught music for a total of 20 years in North Carolina public schools, with service in Lenoir, Edgecombe and Cumberland counties, as well as Burlington. She served as Choir Director and temporary organist at Hay Street United Methodist Church, was an organist for the Long Leaf Pine Chapter 186 of the Order of the Eastern Star, and served as president of the Cumberland County Unit of North Carolina's Education Association in 1945-56. In 1952, Edna married Myron R. Curl of Seattle, Washington with whom she spent 45 happy years. They moved to Seattle in the spring of 1953, where she continued her education at the University of Washington. She taught for 21 more years in Seattle public schools in the fields of music and elementary grade work, culminating in 41 years in the classroom. She was a member of both the North Carolina and the Washington State Retired Teachers Association. Edna and Myron returned to Fayetteville in August of 1989, living in their condo at Clarendon House. Edna's interests during this period were the Cumberland Community Foundation, the Museum of the Cape Fear, the Poe House and developing the Cape Fear Botanical Garden. Although she enjoyed renewing her relationships and family ties in North Carolina, Edna and Myron continued to travel. Edna loved the challenge of learning, attending seminars, Elderhostels, the fellowship of friends and relatives, the adventure and the rewards of traveling, capped with an around the world educational cruise with her husband in 1988. This was a dream come true for both parties. After Myron's death, she became a mentor and active member of the Widow & Widowers Club. Edna was preceded in death by her parents, John E. and Lizzie Ford Williams; her husband, Myron Curl; her brother, Hiram Elwood Williams; her sister, Nita Athalia Williams Dunn. Donations in her memory may be made to the Cumberland Community Foundation Curl Family Fund, PO Box 2171, Fayetteville NC 28302. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007 at 11 am in the Jernigan Warren Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service. A memorial service will also be held at 11 am Monday, January 22, 2007, in Edwards Funeral Home in Kinston.