About Edith Overstreet:
My Name is Edith Bradley Overstreet. I was born in 1925 and raised in the Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee. My parents were Jack and Lou Bradley. I am the first born, and had a younger brother, Ray. I got interested in being a Beautician, when my mother took me to the local beauty school and i got my first perm. I got married for the first time in 1942, to Sam Trantham. We moved west in 1942 just before christmas, and we first went to Spokane, WA. On the first day in August in 1943 we moved to St. Helens. In 1944 my first child Jack was born. The next year in June of 1945 Sam moved back to Tennessee but Jack and I stayed here in St. Helens, and I went to work at J C Penny, and lived with my parents Jack and Lou Bradley. While working at J C Penny i met Tommy Overstreet at a local roller skating rink in 1946. We ended getting married a year later. In 1948 I started Beauty School in Portland. After a reciving my licence a year and a half later, i worked around in different Beauty Shop until 1951, when i decided to open my own beauty shop on November 19th, 1951. After this my husband and I built our house out on the highway. I kept on working at the shop. After trying to have a child for a few years we ended up adopting a little boy in 1957 which we named William (Bill) Overstreet. After that i continued working and then two years later we had a little girl named Beverly (Bev) Overstreet. I still continued to work while my mom babysat my children. In 1962 my son Jack went into the Navy. Around that time my husband and I bought Cooper Auto Parts. In 1972 we moved into town and and to my current location. Right now I have had my own shop for 62 years and am still going strong, and absolutly no plans of slowing down.
I have traveled to 11 different countries as well as back to Tennessee to visit relatives. I have also taken up painting over the years and have a lot of different paintings to show for it.
I have traveled to 11 different countries as well as back to Tennessee to visit relatives. I have also taken up painting over the years and have a lot of different paintings to show for it.