February 13, 2008

ADA MARIE RIDGEWAY

Funeral for Ada Marie Ridgeway, 88, of Rusk was 2 p.m., Thursday in the Wallace- Thompson Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Don Copeland and the Rev. Robin Parsons officiating. Burial was in Salem Cemetery.

Mrs. Ridgeway died Feb. 4. She was born Sept. 25, 1919, in Rusk to Uriah H. and Euretha Daisy Thompson Monroe. She was a member of Memorial Missionary Baptist Church and a retired nurse.

Preceding her in death was her husband, T.C. Ridgeway on March 22, 1990. Survivors are a daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn and Jack Collins of Rusk; two sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas D. and Judy Ridgeway of Longview and Jimmy M. and Sheila Ridgeway of Jacksonville; eight grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.

Grandsons and grandsons in law served as pallbearers.

Information from The Cherokeean Herald