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John Thomas Aldridge

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John Thomas Aldridge Veteran

Birth
Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
20 Nov 1951 (aged 62)
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
American Legion Veterans Section, Row 2, #15
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Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Nov. 21, 1951, Wednesday, p. 15:

J. T. Aldridge Succumbs to Long Illness

John Tomas Aldridge, 62, Greenwood, died yesterday in a local hospital, after a long illness.

He was born in Arcadia, and he had lived in Summer Grove before moving to Greenwood. He is a World War I veteran and was a retired mechanic.

He is survived by his widow; four sons, Thurmond, Greenwood, Robert Randell, Don Hayden, all of Greenwood and Robert, serving with the armed forces in Korea; five daughters, Mrs. Vinnie Faye Vauchanon, Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Joynell Baker, Waskom, Texas, Ruth Ann, Greenwood, and Mrs. Opal Prudhomme, Summer Grove, and Margaret Aldridge, Port Arthur, Texas; mother, Mrs. Edna Aldridge, Shreveport; one brother, Walter Aldridge, Shreveport; three sisters, Mrs. Lona Straughn, Shreveport; Mrs. Annie Grizzle, Shreveport, Mrs. K. L. McCullin, Shreveport, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Nov. 21, 1951, Wednesday, p. 15:

J. T. Aldridge Succumbs to Long Illness

John Tomas Aldridge, 62, Greenwood, died yesterday in a local hospital, after a long illness.

He was born in Arcadia, and he had lived in Summer Grove before moving to Greenwood. He is a World War I veteran and was a retired mechanic.

He is survived by his widow; four sons, Thurmond, Greenwood, Robert Randell, Don Hayden, all of Greenwood and Robert, serving with the armed forces in Korea; five daughters, Mrs. Vinnie Faye Vauchanon, Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Joynell Baker, Waskom, Texas, Ruth Ann, Greenwood, and Mrs. Opal Prudhomme, Summer Grove, and Margaret Aldridge, Port Arthur, Texas; mother, Mrs. Edna Aldridge, Shreveport; one brother, Walter Aldridge, Shreveport; three sisters, Mrs. Lona Straughn, Shreveport; Mrs. Annie Grizzle, Shreveport, Mrs. K. L. McCullin, Shreveport, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Inscription

JOHN T
ALDRIDGE
LOUISIANA
PVT 83 INFANTRY
17 DIVISION
WORLD WAR I
JUNE 15 1889
NOVEMBER 20 1951



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