Reba Ila Ledford Rigsbee died in Peach Tree City, Georgia. She was living with her daughter Jennifer. Her body was taken to Oliver Springs, Tenn for a funeral, by Sharps Funeral Home, then flown to Titusville, Florida for burial in the Oaklawn Memorial Garden, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, Florida.
Reba graduated from Hayesville High School. She went to Clayton, GA to live with Grady and Trudy Gowers who was the superintendent of schools there. She took care of their little girl and attended business school and took typing and shorthand classes. She then got a typing job with the North Georgia Processing Company, a thread mill in Tocoa, GA. She worked here for ten months.
In 1945 she and her cousin Oma Hall left on a job seeking trip. They went to Oak Ridge, Tenn. She caught a bus out of Murphy, NC. They were hired at the K-25 plant. There Reba worked in the lab on the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. This is where she met Wade, her future husband. They lived in Tenn. and then moved to Fla. near the cape where Wade worked.
CHILDREN: Teresa Joyce (1953), Martha Janice (1957), Jennifer Grace (1961)
SPOUSE: Harold Wade Rigsbee (1914-1995)
EULOGY:
Brenda Kay Ledford
The dogwoods are washing our mountains like snow and the apple tree in our back yard blushes in pink blossoms. The thrift dances in fushia flowers across our lawn as tulips parade in colorful formation among the buzzing bees. A sweet fragrance carries across the Blue Ridge Mountains and lime green leaves dance across the Shewbird Mountain. I don't recall a more magnificent spring.
This is the native home of my Aunt Reba Rigsbee. She grew up in the Matheson Cove with her siblings during the Great Depression. Reba loved life and her face would often glow with a smile as she teased her sisters and brothers. She worked side by side with Ma Ledford churning butter, cooking and canning homegrown vegetables, picking apples on Shewbird Mountain, and in the winter quilting before the fireplace. She enjoyed playing basketball at Hayesville School and dreamed of becoming a nurse.
She was graduated from HHS, went to Tennessee and worked in the nuclear plant during WWII. She met the love of her life, got married, and had three beautiful daughters. They moved to Florida and Uncle Wade worked at the Kennedy Space Center. She enjoyed gardening, picking oranges, splashing in the ocean and making sand castles with her children at the beach, but her native mountain home always held a special place in her heart.
Aunt Reba passed away yesterday afternoon after 91 wonderful years of life. Somehow I can imagine her looking down from heaven on this glorious spring in her childhood home and a warm smile radiates across her face as she beholds the beauty of her native land. She might even say, "Just wait until you get up here. You haven't seen anything beautiful until you walk on these golden streets."
I will miss Aunt Reba, but my heart is filled with wonderful memories of this strong mountain woman. She never backed down to problem, and believed she could do all things through the Lord Jesus Christ. She is indeed a winner!----by: Brenda Kay Ledford, Niece
Reba graduated from Hayesville High School. She went to Clayton, GA to live with Grady and Trudy Gowers who was the superintendent of schools there. She took care of their little girl and attended business school and took typing and shorthand classes. She then got a typing job with the North Georgia Processing Company, a thread mill in Tocoa, GA. She worked here for ten months.
In 1945 she and her cousin Oma Hall left on a job seeking trip. They went to Oak Ridge, Tenn. She caught a bus out of Murphy, NC. They were hired at the K-25 plant. There Reba worked in the lab on the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. This is where she met Wade, her future husband. They lived in Tenn. and then moved to Fla. near the cape where Wade worked.
CHILDREN: Teresa Joyce (1953), Martha Janice (1957), Jennifer Grace (1961)
SPOUSE: Harold Wade Rigsbee (1914-1995)
EULOGY:
Brenda Kay Ledford
The dogwoods are washing our mountains like snow and the apple tree in our back yard blushes in pink blossoms. The thrift dances in fushia flowers across our lawn as tulips parade in colorful formation among the buzzing bees. A sweet fragrance carries across the Blue Ridge Mountains and lime green leaves dance across the Shewbird Mountain. I don't recall a more magnificent spring.
This is the native home of my Aunt Reba Rigsbee. She grew up in the Matheson Cove with her siblings during the Great Depression. Reba loved life and her face would often glow with a smile as she teased her sisters and brothers. She worked side by side with Ma Ledford churning butter, cooking and canning homegrown vegetables, picking apples on Shewbird Mountain, and in the winter quilting before the fireplace. She enjoyed playing basketball at Hayesville School and dreamed of becoming a nurse.
She was graduated from HHS, went to Tennessee and worked in the nuclear plant during WWII. She met the love of her life, got married, and had three beautiful daughters. They moved to Florida and Uncle Wade worked at the Kennedy Space Center. She enjoyed gardening, picking oranges, splashing in the ocean and making sand castles with her children at the beach, but her native mountain home always held a special place in her heart.
Aunt Reba passed away yesterday afternoon after 91 wonderful years of life. Somehow I can imagine her looking down from heaven on this glorious spring in her childhood home and a warm smile radiates across her face as she beholds the beauty of her native land. She might even say, "Just wait until you get up here. You haven't seen anything beautiful until you walk on these golden streets."
I will miss Aunt Reba, but my heart is filled with wonderful memories of this strong mountain woman. She never backed down to problem, and believed she could do all things through the Lord Jesus Christ. She is indeed a winner!----by: Brenda Kay Ledford, Niece
Reba Ila Ledford Rigsbee died in Peach Tree City, Georgia. She was living with her daughter Jennifer. Her body was taken to Oliver Springs, Tenn for a funeral, by Sharps Funeral Home, then flown to Titusville, Florida for burial in the Oaklawn Memorial Garden, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, Florida.
Reba graduated from Hayesville High School. She went to Clayton, GA to live with Grady and Trudy Gowers who was the superintendent of schools there. She took care of their little girl and attended business school and took typing and shorthand classes. She then got a typing job with the North Georgia Processing Company, a thread mill in Tocoa, GA. She worked here for ten months.
In 1945 she and her cousin Oma Hall left on a job seeking trip. They went to Oak Ridge, Tenn. She caught a bus out of Murphy, NC. They were hired at the K-25 plant. There Reba worked in the lab on the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. This is where she met Wade, her future husband. They lived in Tenn. and then moved to Fla. near the cape where Wade worked.
CHILDREN: Teresa Joyce (1953), Martha Janice (1957), Jennifer Grace (1961)
SPOUSE: Harold Wade Rigsbee (1914-1995)
EULOGY:
Brenda Kay Ledford
The dogwoods are washing our mountains like snow and the apple tree in our back yard blushes in pink blossoms. The thrift dances in fushia flowers across our lawn as tulips parade in colorful formation among the buzzing bees. A sweet fragrance carries across the Blue Ridge Mountains and lime green leaves dance across the Shewbird Mountain. I don't recall a more magnificent spring.
This is the native home of my Aunt Reba Rigsbee. She grew up in the Matheson Cove with her siblings during the Great Depression. Reba loved life and her face would often glow with a smile as she teased her sisters and brothers. She worked side by side with Ma Ledford churning butter, cooking and canning homegrown vegetables, picking apples on Shewbird Mountain, and in the winter quilting before the fireplace. She enjoyed playing basketball at Hayesville School and dreamed of becoming a nurse.
She was graduated from HHS, went to Tennessee and worked in the nuclear plant during WWII. She met the love of her life, got married, and had three beautiful daughters. They moved to Florida and Uncle Wade worked at the Kennedy Space Center. She enjoyed gardening, picking oranges, splashing in the ocean and making sand castles with her children at the beach, but her native mountain home always held a special place in her heart.
Aunt Reba passed away yesterday afternoon after 91 wonderful years of life. Somehow I can imagine her looking down from heaven on this glorious spring in her childhood home and a warm smile radiates across her face as she beholds the beauty of her native land. She might even say, "Just wait until you get up here. You haven't seen anything beautiful until you walk on these golden streets."
I will miss Aunt Reba, but my heart is filled with wonderful memories of this strong mountain woman. She never backed down to problem, and believed she could do all things through the Lord Jesus Christ. She is indeed a winner!----by: Brenda Kay Ledford, Niece
Reba graduated from Hayesville High School. She went to Clayton, GA to live with Grady and Trudy Gowers who was the superintendent of schools there. She took care of their little girl and attended business school and took typing and shorthand classes. She then got a typing job with the North Georgia Processing Company, a thread mill in Tocoa, GA. She worked here for ten months.
In 1945 she and her cousin Oma Hall left on a job seeking trip. They went to Oak Ridge, Tenn. She caught a bus out of Murphy, NC. They were hired at the K-25 plant. There Reba worked in the lab on the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. This is where she met Wade, her future husband. They lived in Tenn. and then moved to Fla. near the cape where Wade worked.
CHILDREN: Teresa Joyce (1953), Martha Janice (1957), Jennifer Grace (1961)
SPOUSE: Harold Wade Rigsbee (1914-1995)
EULOGY:
Brenda Kay Ledford
The dogwoods are washing our mountains like snow and the apple tree in our back yard blushes in pink blossoms. The thrift dances in fushia flowers across our lawn as tulips parade in colorful formation among the buzzing bees. A sweet fragrance carries across the Blue Ridge Mountains and lime green leaves dance across the Shewbird Mountain. I don't recall a more magnificent spring.
This is the native home of my Aunt Reba Rigsbee. She grew up in the Matheson Cove with her siblings during the Great Depression. Reba loved life and her face would often glow with a smile as she teased her sisters and brothers. She worked side by side with Ma Ledford churning butter, cooking and canning homegrown vegetables, picking apples on Shewbird Mountain, and in the winter quilting before the fireplace. She enjoyed playing basketball at Hayesville School and dreamed of becoming a nurse.
She was graduated from HHS, went to Tennessee and worked in the nuclear plant during WWII. She met the love of her life, got married, and had three beautiful daughters. They moved to Florida and Uncle Wade worked at the Kennedy Space Center. She enjoyed gardening, picking oranges, splashing in the ocean and making sand castles with her children at the beach, but her native mountain home always held a special place in her heart.
Aunt Reba passed away yesterday afternoon after 91 wonderful years of life. Somehow I can imagine her looking down from heaven on this glorious spring in her childhood home and a warm smile radiates across her face as she beholds the beauty of her native land. She might even say, "Just wait until you get up here. You haven't seen anything beautiful until you walk on these golden streets."
I will miss Aunt Reba, but my heart is filled with wonderful memories of this strong mountain woman. She never backed down to problem, and believed she could do all things through the Lord Jesus Christ. She is indeed a winner!----by: Brenda Kay Ledford, Niece
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