Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....RIDGE, Jessie Mae (Best) October 20, 1990 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 May 22, 2009, 1:53 am The Brunswick News; Saturday 20 October 1990; pg. 3A col. 4 MRS. RIDGE DIES EARLY THIS MORNING Jessie Mae Best Ridge, 72, died early this morning at the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. The funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at Northside Baptist Church with the Revs. Mike Miller, Groover Meeks and Stanley Luke officiating. Interment will follow in the Brunswick Memorial Park Cemetery. Pallbearers will be W.C. Westberry, Sonny Watkins, Don Howell, Sheriff Lamar Echols, Dan Hall and Erchel Martin. Honorary pallbearers will be deacons of the Northside Baptist Church and the Rev. Charles Jones. The family will receive friends and relatives at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Ridge is survived by three daughters, Alice Gay Floyd of Brunswick, Kay Hall of Hollywood, Md., and Brenda Gilley of Milton, Fla.; four sisters, Irene Borden and Euna V. Witt, both of Knoxville, Tenn., Juanita Cagle of Alcoa, Tenn., and June Best of Maryville, Tenn.; three brothers, Otto Best of Alcoa, Tenn., Boyd Best and Sam Best, both of Maryville; six grandchildren, one great- grandchild and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Ridge was a native of Maryville and had been a resident of Glynn County for the past 29 years. She was a member of the Northside Baptist Church of Brunswick. The family requests those wishing may make contributions to the charity of the donor’s choice. Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at