Melford W. Riddlebarger

Article taken from The Portsmouth Daily Times, Saturday, November 29, 2003

Melford W. Montgomery, 97

Melford William Riddlebarger, 97, of Dayton, a former Minford area resident, died Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003, in Kettering. Born Oct. 10, 1906, in Scioto County, a song of late James Henry and Ellen Nelson Riddlebarger, he was employed by the former Empire-Detroit Steel Corporation of New Boston, retiring in 1971.

The Rev. Riddlebarger was licensed May 16, 1931, at Long Run, in the Munn School House and was obtained in May 1932 at Bethesda Chruch. He was a former member and pastor at Long Run Free Will Baptist Church in Clarktown.

He is survived by two sons and daugthers-in-law, Ronald Lee and Doris Riddlebarger of Wheelersburg and Larry Devon and Rosalie Rase Riddlebarger of Dayton; his former wife, Florence Riddlebarger of Portsmouth; six grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Augusta Remy of Beaver.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four brothers, Clarence, Lawerence, Delbert, and Roy Riddlebarger; six sisters, Sadie Lane, Della Slack, Cindy Smith, Callie Hagerman, Emma Snyder, and Nora Benner.

Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, at Long Run Free Will Baptist Church in Clarktown, with Pastor Dan Widding officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Burial Park in Wheelersburg. Friends may call at the Erwin-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home in Minford from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday and one hour prior to the service Monday at the chruch.

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