Obituary Record

Zelma Irene (Ellsworth) Claridge
Died on 8/6/1983
Buried in Blair Cemetery

Services Set For Zelma Claridge

Funeral services for Zelma Irene Claridge, 85, who died August 6, 1983, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair are 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 9, at First United Methodist Church in Blair.

The Rev. Sherry J. Sklenar officiated. Burial will be in Blair Cemetery.

Zelma Irene Claridge was born October 8, 1897, at Doniphan, Nebraska, to Orville and Lottie Moore Ellsworth. She married Mark H. Claridge on April 9, 1917, at Neligh, Nebraska.

She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and Royal Neighbors.

She was preceded in death by her husband; two daughters, three brothers and one grandson.

She is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Howard (Mae) Risor, Norfolk, Nebraska; and Mrs. Grand (Frances) Perry, Houston, Texas. Eight grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren also survive her.

Pallbearers are Dr. Donald Ehlers, Dick Charleston, Gene Kinnison, George Tibbets, J. Merton Kuhr and Kenneth Jensen.

Campbell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for the services.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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