Biography of Paul Ritchie Eldridge, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Paul Ritchie Eldridge joined the firm of the Forrest City Motor Company in 1946
with his father and Mr. Deaderick, after three years service in the Army Air
Corps in World War II as a pilot in aerial reconnaissance. He was placed on
inactive status as a First Lieutenant on Jan. 1, 1946. Paul graduated at Forrest
City High School and later attended the University of Arkansas and Alabama. On
May 22, 1948, he married Miss Rebecca Rogers of Memphis, and to this union has
been born a son and a daughter. Paul is a member of the King-Beazley American
Legion Post, and has been a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club, Rotary
Club, and Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Methodist church, and
in a partnership with his father in the Eldridge-Deaderick Farms west of
Palestine.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas