Delmar Virgil Aldridge - Houston Herald, Houston, Texas Co., Missouri, 1 Dec 2000
Delmar Virgil Aldridge, 78, son of Joseph and Lestell Chambers Aldridge, was born Sept. 10, 1922, at Tyrone. He died Nov. 27, 2000, at Ozarks Medical Center at West Plains.
One of seven children, he completed the sixth grade at Tyrone School.
He served in the U.S. Army from Jan. 6, 1943, to Jan. 31, 1946, during World War II, where he was a heavy artillery specialist serving in the South Pacific. He earned numerous awards and medals for marksmanship, knowledge, bravery and service from foreign affairs.
He was a life-time member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He married Goldia Cathren Hall June 29, 1946, in the Grandview community. They had one son.
Mr. Aldridge worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for five years and retired from Rawlings Sporting Goods at Willow Springs after 22 years of employment.
He loved the outdoors, cutting wood, planting garden and deer hunting with his grandsons. He would cook Sunday dinner and tell stories about the "good ol' days".
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Oral Aldridge.
Surviving are his wife of Tyrone; his son, Jimmie Dean Aldridge of Willow Springs; two brothers, Dean of Tyrone and Bob of Springfield; three sisters, Maxine Newberry of Rolla, Marie Grogan of Tyrone and Vernetta Swartz of Springfield; four grandsons and six great-grandchildren.
Services were Nov. 29 at the Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Smith officiating. Burial with military rites was in the Old Tyrone Cemetery.
Delmar Virgil Aldridge, 78, son of Joseph and Lestell Chambers Aldridge, was born Sept. 10, 1922, at Tyrone. He died Nov. 27, 2000, at Ozarks Medical Center at West Plains.
One of seven children, he completed the sixth grade at Tyrone School.
He served in the U.S. Army from Jan. 6, 1943, to Jan. 31, 1946, during World War II, where he was a heavy artillery specialist serving in the South Pacific. He earned numerous awards and medals for marksmanship, knowledge, bravery and service from foreign affairs.
He was a life-time member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He married Goldia Cathren Hall June 29, 1946, in the Grandview community. They had one son.
Mr. Aldridge worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for five years and retired from Rawlings Sporting Goods at Willow Springs after 22 years of employment.
He loved the outdoors, cutting wood, planting garden and deer hunting with his grandsons. He would cook Sunday dinner and tell stories about the "good ol' days".
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Oral Aldridge.
Surviving are his wife of Tyrone; his son, Jimmie Dean Aldridge of Willow Springs; two brothers, Dean of Tyrone and Bob of Springfield; three sisters, Maxine Newberry of Rolla, Marie Grogan of Tyrone and Vernetta Swartz of Springfield; four grandsons and six great-grandchildren.
Services were Nov. 29 at the Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Smith officiating. Burial with military rites was in the Old Tyrone Cemetery.
Delmar Virgil Aldridge - Houston Herald, Houston, Texas Co., Missouri, 1 Dec 2000
Delmar Virgil Aldridge, 78, son of Joseph and Lestell Chambers Aldridge, was born Sept. 10, 1922, at Tyrone. He died Nov. 27, 2000, at Ozarks Medical Center at West Plains.
One of seven children, he completed the sixth grade at Tyrone School.
He served in the U.S. Army from Jan. 6, 1943, to Jan. 31, 1946, during World War II, where he was a heavy artillery specialist serving in the South Pacific. He earned numerous awards and medals for marksmanship, knowledge, bravery and service from foreign affairs.
He was a life-time member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He married Goldia Cathren Hall June 29, 1946, in the Grandview community. They had one son.
Mr. Aldridge worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for five years and retired from Rawlings Sporting Goods at Willow Springs after 22 years of employment.
He loved the outdoors, cutting wood, planting garden and deer hunting with his grandsons. He would cook Sunday dinner and tell stories about the "good ol' days".
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Oral Aldridge.
Surviving are his wife of Tyrone; his son, Jimmie Dean Aldridge of Willow Springs; two brothers, Dean of Tyrone and Bob of Springfield; three sisters, Maxine Newberry of Rolla, Marie Grogan of Tyrone and Vernetta Swartz of Springfield; four grandsons and six great-grandchildren.
Services were Nov. 29 at the Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Smith officiating. Burial with military rites was in the Old Tyrone Cemetery.
Delmar Virgil Aldridge, 78, son of Joseph and Lestell Chambers Aldridge, was born Sept. 10, 1922, at Tyrone. He died Nov. 27, 2000, at Ozarks Medical Center at West Plains.
One of seven children, he completed the sixth grade at Tyrone School.
He served in the U.S. Army from Jan. 6, 1943, to Jan. 31, 1946, during World War II, where he was a heavy artillery specialist serving in the South Pacific. He earned numerous awards and medals for marksmanship, knowledge, bravery and service from foreign affairs.
He was a life-time member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He married Goldia Cathren Hall June 29, 1946, in the Grandview community. They had one son.
Mr. Aldridge worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for five years and retired from Rawlings Sporting Goods at Willow Springs after 22 years of employment.
He loved the outdoors, cutting wood, planting garden and deer hunting with his grandsons. He would cook Sunday dinner and tell stories about the "good ol' days".
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Oral Aldridge.
Surviving are his wife of Tyrone; his son, Jimmie Dean Aldridge of Willow Springs; two brothers, Dean of Tyrone and Bob of Springfield; three sisters, Maxine Newberry of Rolla, Marie Grogan of Tyrone and Vernetta Swartz of Springfield; four grandsons and six great-grandchildren.
Services were Nov. 29 at the Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Smith officiating. Burial with military rites was in the Old Tyrone Cemetery.
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