St. Clair County Obits

Myrtle Dell Ridgway

Funeral Card

Myrtle Ridgway
August 17, 1883 - September 9, 1974
91 Years, 22 Days
Graveside Services: Friday, September 13
Mt. Zion Cemetery, 2 P.M.
Minister: Rev. Paul Midget
Music: Mrs. Elizabeth Yoss
"When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder"
"Jesus Lover Of My Soul"
Pallbearers: Clarence Everson, Everett Dody, Harold Roth, Francis Moore
Interment: Mt. Zion Cemetery

Myrtle Ridgway
Myrtle Dell, daughter of William and Alwilda Allinson, was born in St. Clair County, Mo. August 17, 1883 and died September 9, 1974 at Mesa, Arizona. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
After spending her youth in the Mt. Zion area, she attended Appleton City Academy and the Teachers College at Warrensburg, then taught in rural schools until her marriage to Bert J. Ridgway. They reared their family near Appleton City from 1916 to 1942.
She is survived by one son, Jack M. Ridgway, Olathe, Kans.; three daughters, Ruby Robinson and Ann Berg, Mesa, Arizona, and Claudia Moore, Fairborn, Ohio; six grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren; two brothers, Warner Allinson, Appleton City and Vane Allinson, El Dorado Springs; numerous nieces and nephews.