Richards, Judith Clements - 1943-2005

CLEMENTS, RICHARDS, SABO

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/10/2016 at 10:46:45

Services Today
Services for Judi Richards will be held Thursday, December 22, 2005, at the Prairie City United Methodist Church at 11 a.m. Burial will take place at Waveland Cemetery at a later date.
Judi Richards, age 62 of Prairie City, passed away Saturday, December 18, 2005, surrounded by family and friends at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Judi died from complications of open heart surgery and congestive heart failure, after a six week struggle.
Memorials may be given to the Heifer Project International, a Mission agency supported by the United Methodist Church and online condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com.
The daughter of Robert & Helen (Sabo) Clements, Judith was born on May 18, 1943, in Gary, Indiana. She graduated from Torrance High School and attended one year of junior college in California as well as one year at Faith Baptist Bible College. Judi met her future husband Sterling “Skip” Richards while he was in the US Navy and stationed in Long Beach, California. They were married three months later on September 7, 1963, and have been married 42 years. They moved to Bondurant in 1970, Altoona in 1976 and Prairie City in 1994. Judi served for many years as an AWANA Leader, a Sunday Teacher and Children’s Church Leader.
Those left to honor her memory are her husband, Skip in Prairie City; her mother, Helen in Prairie City; her father, Robert in California; a daughter, Rochell and her husband Tim, who are Baptist Missionaries in Berlin, Germany; a son, Sterling, who manages a Taco Bell and his wife Denise, who works with handicapped adults. Also surviving are three grandchildren, Aaron, Daniel and David and Judi’s two younger sisters, Cheri and her family in Illinois and Cathi and her family in California.
Source: Monroe Legacy; Thursday, 22 December 2005