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Roxie L. Ethridge
Posted 3/2/08
Roxie L. (Coombs) Ethridge, 90 MILFORD - Roxie L. (Coombs) Ethridge, of Milford, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at her home. She was 90. She was born in West Franklin, Maine, on March 7, 1917, to the …
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Roxie L. Ethridge
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Roxie L. (Coombs) Ethridge, 90
MILFORD - Roxie L. (Coombs) Ethridge, of Milford, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at her home. She was 90.
She was born in West Franklin, Maine, on March 7, 1917, to the late Gerald and Edna (Clark) Coombs.
Mrs. Ethridge attended Riverside School in Livermore, Maine, and Livermore Falls High School.
She married Donald Reed Ethridge of Auburn, Maine, on May 3, 1942, at the Eaton Memorial Methodist Church in Livermore Falls.
Mrs. Ethridge worked as a cook and health-care attendant, caring for many of the area elderly in their homes in her early years.
Her husband was called to duty during the war and they moved their family south, residing in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia.
Mrs. Ethridge was a homemaker most of her life, but also worked at the local school cafeteria.
She enjoyed traveling and that is what she did, traveling from Maine to Tennessee, Florida, Virginia and Delaware.
She loved playing card games and Parcheesi. She also enjoyed crocheting, quilting and sewing until her hands got tired.
Mrs. Ethridge was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Reed Ethridge; a son, Wayne Ethridge; a grandson, John Baker; a granddaughter, Lisa Dawn Ethridge; a great-grandson, Kyle Baker; four brothers, Claude, Francis, Ronald and Kenneth Coombs; and two sisters, Eula Coombs and Wilda Safford.
She is survived by three daughters, Donna Baker and her husband Greg of Bunker Hill, W.Va., Gail Stout of Milford, and Sharon Ethridge of Umatilla, Fla.; one son, Donald Ethridge of Monmouth, Maine; three sisters, Helen Wilbur of Bath, Maine, Arlene Wilkins and her husband Clayton of Fayette, Maine, and Idis Crockett and her husband Dudley of Lenoir City, Tenn.; a brother, Winston Coombs of Livermore; a sister-in-law, Pauline Coombs of Livermore Falls; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be held at the convenience of the family at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Livermore Falls.
Local arrangements by Lofland Funeral Home, Milford.
MILFORD - Roxie L. (Coombs) Ethridge, of Milford, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at her home. She was 90.
She was born in West Franklin, Maine, on March 7, 1917, to the late Gerald and Edna (Clark) Coombs.
Mrs. Ethridge attended Riverside School in Livermore, Maine, and Livermore Falls High School.
She married Donald Reed Ethridge of Auburn, Maine, on May 3, 1942, at the Eaton Memorial Methodist Church in Livermore Falls.
Mrs. Ethridge worked as a cook and health-care attendant, caring for many of the area elderly in their homes in her early years.
Her husband was called to duty during the war and they moved their family south, residing in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia.
Mrs. Ethridge was a homemaker most of her life, but also worked at the local school cafeteria.
She enjoyed traveling and that is what she did, traveling from Maine to Tennessee, Florida, Virginia and Delaware.
She loved playing card games and Parcheesi. She also enjoyed crocheting, quilting and sewing until her hands got tired.
Mrs. Ethridge was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Reed Ethridge; a son, Wayne Ethridge; a grandson, John Baker; a granddaughter, Lisa Dawn Ethridge; a great-grandson, Kyle Baker; four brothers, Claude, Francis, Ronald and Kenneth Coombs; and two sisters, Eula Coombs and Wilda Safford.
She is survived by three daughters, Donna Baker and her husband Greg of Bunker Hill, W.Va., Gail Stout of Milford, and Sharon Ethridge of Umatilla, Fla.; one son, Donald Ethridge of Monmouth, Maine; three sisters, Helen Wilbur of Bath, Maine, Arlene Wilkins and her husband Clayton of Fayette, Maine, and Idis Crockett and her husband Dudley of Lenoir City, Tenn.; a brother, Winston Coombs of Livermore; a sister-in-law, Pauline Coombs of Livermore Falls; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be held at the convenience of the family at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Livermore Falls.
Local arrangements by Lofland Funeral Home, Milford.
