Badgett, Geraldine Zona Evans Hebert Tindle

BADGETT, EVANS HEBERT, TINDLE

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Date: 11/24/2013 at 13:05:55

Badgett, Geraldine Zona Evans Hebert -
Geraldine Zona Badgett was born April 3, 1913 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of Charles Lovejoy and Emma Marsden (Tindle)
Evans. She was one of seven children. Her first years were spent in the Council Bluffs area, then she moved to the Corning area where she graduated from Corning High School.
At the age of twenty, she moved to California where she attended college for a couple of years. In 1938, she married Richard Cole Hebert in Pasadena, California. To their union was born a daughter Gerry and a son Hal.
Geraldine continued to live in California. She worked for the McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Manufacturing as a supervisor in the shipping
department. Following her retirement in 1979, she returned to Iowa.
On October 22, 1980, she married Max Richard Badgett in Arkansas. They made their home in rural Lenox, but they enjoyed wintering in Florida. At their winter home in Florida, she was an officer of the Haines City Mobile Home Park Association. There she played an active role in organizing activities and was in charge of producing and distributing the monthly newsletter.
She died January 6, 1998 at the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 84 years, 9 months, 3 days.
Geraldine was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband Richard Cole Hebert, brothers: Ronald, Donald and Clifford Evans; and a sister Retta Lou Hangs.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband Max of Lenox, her daughter and son-in-law Gerry and Robert Coleman of Kansas City, MO; her son and daughter-in-law Hal and Carol Hebert of Denver, Colorado; a brother and sister-in-law Everett and Sue Evans of Pasadena, CA; a sister Bernice Hebert of Whitefish, Montana; four grandchildren: Michelle Wilkens, Christopher Crissler, Beau Hebert, and Katrina Prater, one great-grandchild, Tessera Wilkens; several nieces and nephews; and many friends in our surrounding area as well
as in Florida who will always remember her.
Funeral services were held Friday, January 9, 1998, at 1:00 p.m. at the Lenox United Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tim Maxa officiating. Burial was in the Morgan Cemetery in rural Kent.
Those serving as pallbearers were Christopher Crissler, Jerald Prater, and friends of Geraldine. Roberta Lockhart as organist played
"How Great Thou Art , and accompanied the congregation as they sang, "Amazing Grace."
Memorials may be directed to the Lenox United Presbyterian Church.
Coen-Beaty Funeral Home of Lenox was in charge of funeral arrangements.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Wednesday January 14, 1998