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Submitted: 12/10/21 • Approved: 12/10/21 • Last Updated: 12/13/21 • R472998-G0-S3
1882-1951
In Loving Memory
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Arthur Vernie Ridgway, 68 years old, who died Friday of a heart attack at his home in Mobeetie, were conducted Sunday. Rev. A.D. Moore, pastor and Rev. O.C. Evans of Morse officiated at the service which was conducted at the Mobeetie Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Burial under the direction of Kirk-Mason Funeral Home, was in the Wheeler Cemetery.
Born in Ashflat, Ark., October 24, 1882, Mr. Ridgway moved to Kaufman County at the age of seven. He grew to young manhood there, met and married Veda Lou Webb, December 23, 1902. They moved to Mobeetie in 1929. In 1938 they moved to Lockney, where they lived for 14 years before moving back to Mobeetie about a year ago.
Mr. Ridgway joined the Methodist Church in 1916 at Saginan. He served as Sunday School Supt. and Steward in the Briscoe Church several years.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Vada Ridgway; his mother, Mrs. Lou Cosby Foreman, Raton; a sister, Mrs. Maggie Coker; two brothers, E.P. Ridgway, Amarillo; Clyte [sic] Ridgway, Pampa; two half sisters, Mrs. Fern Burdette, Corpus Christi; Mrs. Fawn Wiley, Rotan; two half brothers, Dave Foreman, Lubbock and Paul Foreman, Rotan.
Pallbearers were nephews, Bill and Ralph Ridgway, Pampa; Art Ridgway, Sunray; Janoise Ridgway, Mobeetie; Denziel Coker, Roby and John McCarroll, Jr., Arlington.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume XVIII-Number 43, Wheeler, Texas, Thursday, October 4, 1951, Page 1)
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Card of Thanks
We wish to take this means to express our appreciation and thanks especially to the Methodist Church ladies and to friends and neighbors for their expressions of sympathy, the food brought and for the lovely flowers. May God bless each of you.
Mrs. Vada Ridgway
Mrs. Maggie Coker and Family
E.P. Ridgway and family
Clyte [sic]Ridgway and family
John McCarroll and family
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume XVIII-Number 43, Wheeler, Texas, Thursday, October 4, 1951, Page 10)
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Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
Name: A V Ridgway
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1903
Marriage Place: Kaufman, Texas, USA
Spouse: Vada Webb
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Arthur Vernie Ridgway
Race: White
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1882
Street address: R. R. # 2
Residence Place: Tarrant, Texas, USA
Relative: Vada Ridgway
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Arthur Vernie Ridgway
Gender: Male
Residence Age: 60
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1882
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Lockney, Texas, USA
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Military Draft Date: 1942
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: A. V. Ridgeway
Death Date: 28 Sep 1951
Death County: Wheeler
Certificate: 49812
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: A V Ridgeway
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 68
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1882
Birth Place: Ashflat, Arkansas
Residence: Mobeetie, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 28 Sep 1951
Death Place: Mobeetie, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Father: Pamtney Bidgeway
Mother: Lou Casby
Contributed on 12/10/21
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