RIDGEWAY, Roy Earl: 1904-200

RIDGEWAY, LOVING, STCLAIR, ALLARD, BOYCE, HAWBAKER, MCCORMICK, LESLIE, CONNER, RUPP

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 2/23/2013 at 20:16:18

The Fairfield Ledger (Ia.)
Wednesday, February 2, 2000

Roy Earl Ridgeway

Roy Earl Ridgeway, 96, of Keosauqua died at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2000, at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua.

The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua with the Rev. Bill Shewmaker officiating. Burial will be in Vernon Cemetery. Open visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with family present from 6-8 p.m. Memorials to Keosauqua Christian Church or First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fairfield may be left at the funeral home.

Mr. Ridgeway was born Jan. 29, 1904, in Mount Pleasant, the son of Thomas Edgar and Alta Eldora Loving Ridgeway. He married Marguerite Louise St. Clair Allard Oct. 15, 1938, in Ottumwa.

He grew up in Hillsboro, graduating from Hillsboro High School and owned and operated Ridgeway Roofing Co. in Fairfield until retiring in 1969 when he moved to Vernon. The Ridgeways moved to Country Lane Apartments in Keosauqua in July 1999.

He was a member of Keosauqua Christian Church and Fraternal Order of Eagles in Fairfield.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Tom Ridgeway of Anamosa and Gary Ridgeway of Iowa City; five daughters, Leota Boyce of Camdenton, Mo., Treva Hawbaker of Renville, Minn., Louisa McCormick of Milan, Ill., Betty Leslie of Aledo, Ill., and Sharon Conner of Port Byron, Ill.; 29 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Rex Ridgeway; one sister, Wilda Rupp; and one brother, Vern Ridgeway.

(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)