St. Clair County Obits

MRS. HOLLAND HIGDON RITCHEY

J. W. Higdon, 307 South Fifth street, has received the sad news that his mother, Mrs. Phillip Ritchey, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Chapman, of Anderson, Mo., after an illness of about four weeks with infirmatives of old age. She celebrated her 95th birthday last July 27. Deceased lived east of Clinton many years ago and was the sister of the late Wesley Holland. She visited here about three years ago. Her first husband, Jim Higdon, died during the Civil War and she later married Phillip Ritchey who died in 1929 and she has since made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Chapman. She is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Pearl Anderson of Arkansas and three sons J. W. Higdon, Clinton; Chas. Ritchey, of Joplin, and T. Ritchey, Neosho. Two nephews, John and Bird Holland, live east of Clinton and a niece, Mrs. Fannie Merie, at Lowry City.