| Patricia Louise Ridgway December 13, 1933 January 29, 2008 |
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| Comments from friends and relatives May this tribute bring comforting words and pleasant memories during this difficult time. It has been an honor serving your family. Lanman Funeral Home Staff Name = Carol Land E-mail = kcland@cox.net Phone Number = (785) 267-4903 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = Dear Brock, Cheryl, Brad and Brett: I am so very sorry to hear abaout your mom's passing. I had a Christmas card from her and meant to give her a call because I didn't know Jim had passed away. We worked together for many years and was such good friends. I just wanted you to know what a wonderful person she was and how much I respected her. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I lost my mom just a year ago this month and I know how hard it is. Carol Land Name = Samuel Rahe Kastens E-mail = maverickman61@hotmail.com Phone Number = 662 416-3764 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = Pat was one of Kiowa's greatest residents. She was a wonderful mother and will be greatly missed. My condolences go out to Beverly and Brock, Cheryl, Bradley and Brett and their families. For us who grew up in the late 50's and 60's, Pat was a hero. She was a lovely, great American. Name = Jim Blevins E-mail = bevblevins@hotmail.com Phone Number = 580-227-2945 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = Brock, Cheryl, Brad, Brett. Thinking of you classmates from a few years back. So sorry to hear of your mom's passing. I have great memories of your mom and family. Delivering food from Jack and Jill gro. to the drive in. Your mom was such a treat. I think we were so lucky to grow up in a great little town, and have such wonderful people to develope our character from. May god bless all of you. Class of 71, Jim Blevins Name = Peggy Mason E-mail = granpeg@hotmail.com Phone Number = 620 825 4162 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = My sincere sympathies to your family. Pat was a beautiful woman and I am truly blessed to have known her. Name = Alice (Webb)Davis E-mail = clifandali@pldi.net Phone Number = 4059692612 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = Hi Brock, Sheryl, Brad, and Bret. Just wanted to say how sorry I was to hear about your mother. She was such a blessing to me while working at the Dairy Bar. I always admired her for the person she was. God bless you all. Alice Name = Bernard & Judith Cushing E-mail = bernardcushing@consolidated.net Phone Number = 281-392-2907 Memorial Name = Pat Ridgway Comments = Dear Brock, Brad, Brett & Cheryl. We are so sorry to hear the news of your mothers death. We heard it announced at church (St.Barts)on Sunday. Pat & Jim were wonderfull neighbors when they lived next door. we will keep her and the family in our prayers. Bernard & Judith Cushing Katy, Texas. Name = Vickie McBride Fisher E-mail = vlfishe1@yahoo.com Phone Number = 620-564-2695 Memorial Name = Lonnie McBride Comments = KL, this will the next to the hardest thing you will deal with in your life. Hardest will be if you ever have to do it for your own child. You did a wonderful job with the service. I am so sorry you lost your dad. My heart breaks for you and all of us also every day. With our bad we sure had alot of good days. May Lonnie now rest in peace and hear his black choir daily singing just for him in heaven. Mom |
| KIOWA-Patricia Louise (‘Pat’) Ridgway, 74, was born to Elsie (Whelan) Pelzl and Alphons J. Pelzl on December 13 1933 in Sharon, Kansas at the home of her maternal grandparents, Frank & Virginia Whelan, and passed away suddenly and quite unexpectedly on Tuesday morning, January 29, 2008 at her daughter’s home in Texas. Pat was raised in Sharon and Wichita and graduated from Sharon High School in the Class of 1951. Patsy married Jimmie David Ridgway, the love of her life, on November 18, 1950, at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Sharon, Kansas. Shortly after Jim returned from his military service in post-war Germany he and Pat moved to Kiowa where they raised their four children and together opened and operated the Drive-In Dairy Bar during the fifties, sixties and seventies. From 1984 through 2000 Pat and Jim lived in Katy, Texas before returning to Kiowa in 2001. Pat was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 58 years, Jim, who passed away on August 2, 2007 and her parents, Elsie and Al Pelzl. She will be deeply and forever missed by her survivors: son Brock of Houston, Texas; daughter and son-in-law Cheryl and Daniel Kidd of Katy, Texas, son and daughter-in-law Bradley and Kathleen Ridgway of Houston, Texas; son and daughter-in-law Brett and Connie Ridgway of Hazelton, and grandchildren, Cory Kidd, Christa (Kidd) Puckett, Casey Kidd, and Blake, Grant, Holly and Bryce Ridgway, and two great grandchildren, Emma and Lucas Puckett, Pat’s only sister; Beverly Fiegel and her two paternal aunts; Kathryn Wilson and Elfreda Hall. Pat took tremendous pride in the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and her later years were filled with the joys they brought to her. Pat was the life and soul of her family and she became well known to the people of Kiowa as a hard- working woman who gave much to her family, business, community and church. In addition to being a wonderful mother and devoted wife, she stepped into the role of caretaker many times during her life. During her high school years she cared for her grandparents and since 1999 she cared for Jim which included three 120-mile round trips per week for his dialysis treatments. Her faith was a cornerstone of her life and she was a devout member of St. John the Apostle in Kiowa, and St. Bartholomew in Katy, Texas. Rosary will be Friday, February 1, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. and Funeral service will be Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 12:00 P.M. both at St. Boniface Catholic Church with Father John Strasser officiating with burial immediately thereafter at the Attica Cemetery where she will be laid to rest next to her husband, Jim, and his parents. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Kiowa, Kansas. Memorials may be made to the St. Boniface Catholic Church, National Kidney Foundation or the American Heart Association through the funeral home. |
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