Funeral services for Robert Dixon (Buddy) Bridger, 21, of Ruston, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Methodist Church with the pastor, the Rev. Jolly B. Harper, officiating.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.
Bridger, a graduate of Ruston High School and who later attended Louisiana Tech, received fatal injuries at Fort Benning, Ga., recently while participating in a U.S. Army training program.
He has served in the army for the past two years, having enlisted for a three-year period in November, 1955.
His mother, Mrs. Nettie Bridger, teaches seventh grade at Ruston Junior High School. Other survivors include his wife, the former Gail Wesson of Ruston, and seven-week-old son, Robert Jeffery; one sister, Mrs. L. M. Dyson of Newark, Delaware; and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn C. Jones, Ruston.
Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), Tuesday, November 26, 1957
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.
Bridger, a graduate of Ruston High School and who later attended Louisiana Tech, received fatal injuries at Fort Benning, Ga., recently while participating in a U.S. Army training program.
He has served in the army for the past two years, having enlisted for a three-year period in November, 1955.
His mother, Mrs. Nettie Bridger, teaches seventh grade at Ruston Junior High School. Other survivors include his wife, the former Gail Wesson of Ruston, and seven-week-old son, Robert Jeffery; one sister, Mrs. L. M. Dyson of Newark, Delaware; and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn C. Jones, Ruston.
Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), Tuesday, November 26, 1957
Funeral services for Robert Dixon (Buddy) Bridger, 21, of Ruston, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Methodist Church with the pastor, the Rev. Jolly B. Harper, officiating.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.
Bridger, a graduate of Ruston High School and who later attended Louisiana Tech, received fatal injuries at Fort Benning, Ga., recently while participating in a U.S. Army training program.
He has served in the army for the past two years, having enlisted for a three-year period in November, 1955.
His mother, Mrs. Nettie Bridger, teaches seventh grade at Ruston Junior High School. Other survivors include his wife, the former Gail Wesson of Ruston, and seven-week-old son, Robert Jeffery; one sister, Mrs. L. M. Dyson of Newark, Delaware; and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn C. Jones, Ruston.
Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), Tuesday, November 26, 1957
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.
Bridger, a graduate of Ruston High School and who later attended Louisiana Tech, received fatal injuries at Fort Benning, Ga., recently while participating in a U.S. Army training program.
He has served in the army for the past two years, having enlisted for a three-year period in November, 1955.
His mother, Mrs. Nettie Bridger, teaches seventh grade at Ruston Junior High School. Other survivors include his wife, the former Gail Wesson of Ruston, and seven-week-old son, Robert Jeffery; one sister, Mrs. L. M. Dyson of Newark, Delaware; and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn C. Jones, Ruston.
Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), Tuesday, November 26, 1957
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