St. Clair County Obits

Jack Ridgway

Appleton City Journal
13 August 1981
Jack Mains Ridgway, 69, Evergreen, Colorado, formerly of Olathe, Kansas died Wednesday, July 22, 1981 at a hospital in Denver. He was born in Camp Crook, South Dakota to Bert and Myrtle Allinson Ridgway, moving to Missouri when a small boy. He was raised two miles north of Appleton City and graduated from Appleton City High School in 1930. Mr. Ridgway was a Navy flight instructor in World War II. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Olathe and the Appleton City, Mo. Masonic Lodge. He lived in Olathe, Kansas several years, after retirement moving to Evergreen, Colorado and was still active in carpenter work. He was doing repair work when he fell, receiving serious head injuries that caused his death.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mildred (Millie) Ridgway of the home, two daughters, Mrs. Patricia J. Neal, Omaha, Nebraska and Miss Martha J. Ridgway, Palo Alto, California; three sisters, Mrs. Ruby R. Robinson and Mrs. Ann R. Bug of Phoenix, Arizona and Mrs. Claudia R. Moore, St. Paris, Ohio; and two grandsons.
Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 25, at the Frye Chapel, Olathe and at 3 p.m. graveside services at Barrett Cemetery, Frankfort, Kansas.
Friends and relatives attending services from Appleton City in Olathe were Mr. and Mrs. George Schlichtman, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hunt, Mildred Piepmeier, Wilda Williamson and Neola Everson.