----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 10/ /1959

Longridge, John (1875 - 1959)

GREENWOOD--Funeral services were conducted at the Hill Funeral Home Thursday afternoon for John Longridge, 83, who died Oct. 5, 1959 at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville after an illness of several months. The Rev. Ethel Nulton, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, officiated.

Surviving are his wife three sons, Charles A. Longridge, El Paso, Texas Lloyd L. Longridge, Greenwood and Lt. Col. Emmett F. Longridge, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. and two daughters, Mrs. Grace M. Metcalf, Greenwood, and Mrs. Gladys Jones, Hutchinson, Kansas.

Five sisters and one brother preceded hi in death.