Eddy Co. NM - OBIT: LILA BRIDWELL Submitted By: patti pennington ************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************ The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad (NM) Current Argus - February 12, 2000 BRIDWELL Funeral services will be held today at Hillcrest United Methodist Church, for Lila Bridwell, 90, of Carlsbad. Interment will follow at Carlsbad Cemetery. She died February 9 at Carlsbad Medical Center. Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. She was born August 2, 1909, to John Sherman and Margaret Ellen Nichols Patton in Junction, TX, where she grew up. She married Silas Samuel Bridwell in Winters, TX, on May 1, 1926. In 1940 they moved to Carlsbad. She and Si had three sons. Darrell Bridwell and wife, Katie, Bill Bridwell and wife, Delora, and Kenneth Bridwell and wife, Joyce. She was preceded in death by her husband, Si Bridwell on November 28, 1981, and by a son, Darrell Bridwell, on April 23, 1990. Survivors include sons, Bill Bridwell, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Kenneth Bridwell, of Wagoner, Okla.; 14 grand-children; 37 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren. (Photo shown of Bridwell)