Mrs. J. Crosby Eldridge

ELDRIDGE, GUTZ, GIBBS, BAUR

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/8/2006 at 19:26:11

Winterset Madisonian
1961

MRS. ELDRIDGE, 40 IS STORM VICTIM

Mrs. J. Crosby Eldridge, of Ames, who had visited her mother, Mrs. John Gutz of Winterset and her sister, Mrs. R. Edward Baur of Jefferson township many times, was one of the victims of the severe snow storm, that paralyzed traffic in central Iowa last Friday night. Mrs. Eldridge, the former Marian Gutz, was 40 years of age; she lived for a half hour after she was returned to her home, but road crews were unable to bring a doctor, and she died about 9 o'clock, December 22nd.

Mrs. Eldridge, a native of Pomeroy, was a graduate of Iowa State College at Ames, and had resided on a farm near there since her marriage in 1942. She is survived by her husband and their 13 year old daughter, Mary Louise. She also leaves a son E. P. Gutz of Hampton and a sister, Mrs. Billy Gibbs of Greenfield; in addition to the mother and sister of this community.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. William Deals of Ames Memorial Lutheran church at the Stevens Ross funeral home at 2 p.m. December 26th, and burial was in the Memorial Gardens of Ames.