Obit: Longridge, Emma #2 (1878 - 1960)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Longridge, Dagnan, Jones, Metcalf, Carlson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 7, 1960

Longridge, Emma (7 May 1878 - 2 July 1960)

Mrs. John Longridge, 82, died July 2, at the Havenett Nursing Home in Owen, where she had been a patient since December 28, 1959.  She had been a surgical patient at St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield, from June 6 to June 16, when she returned to Owen.

Mrs. Longridge, nee Emma Dagnan, was born May 7, 1878, at Council Bluffs, Ia.  She moved with her mother at the age of 9 to Sioux Falls, Ia., following the death of her father in 1887.

She was married to John Longridge on April 7, 1902, at Sioux Falls, where they lived until 1909, when the family moved to Wisconsin and settled at Hemlock on a farm.  Two years later they moved onto a farm west of the Black River in Hemlock, where they lived until they retired December 17, 1947, and moved into a newly built home in Greenwood.

Following the death of her husband on October 5, 1959, Mrs. Longridge took up residence in the Home for the Aged in Greenwood until she went to Owen.

She was a member of Grace Methodist Church and its Women’s Society of Christian Service.

She is survived by three sons and two daughters: Charles of El Paso, Tex.; Lloyd of Greenwood; and Lt. Col. Emmett Longridge of Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.; Mrs. Delbert (Gladys) Jones of Hutchinson, Kans.; and Mrs. Le Roy (Grace) Metcalf of Greenwood.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from Grace Methodist Church with the Rev. Gene Carlson officiating. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.