Harold Lockridge

Funeral services for Harold Lockridge, Jamesport, will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, 2000, at the Jamesport Baptist Church. Arrangements are by the Bram Funeral Home, Jamesport.

Burial will be at the Masonic Cemetery, Jamesport. Graveside military rites will be conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2172, Gallatin, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4131, Jamesport. Visitation is between 1-2 p.m., Friday, at the Jamesport Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or the National Kidney Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri, in care of the funeral home.

Harold L. Lockridge, 80, Jamesport, died Monday, Oct. 30, 2000, at the Liberty Hospital.

Mr. Lockridge was born and raised on the family farm near Jamesport. He graduated from the Jamesport High School with the Class of 1939. He attended Missouri State Teachers College at Maryville. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Aeronautics in 1940.

Mr. Lockridge enlisted in the Navy on July 28, 1943, and served as a Radarman aboard the USS Myles C. Fox, an aircraft carrier in the Asiatic Pacific War Zone. He was honorably discharged on April 19, 1946.

Mr. Lockridge farmed all of his life on the Lockridge family farm which is listed as a “Homestead Centennial Family Farm.” He was employed by Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, Calif., from 1941 to 1943.

Mr. Lockridge was a member of the Jamesport Baptist Church; commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4131, Jamesport; chairman of the Jamesport Special Road District for almost 15 years; and a former member of the Daviess County Farm Bureau.

On Feb. 27, 1957, he married Ruth E. McCrary. She survives of the home.

Mr. Lockridge was preceded in death by one sister, Lola Mae Lockridge Hill; and four brothers, Raymond, Hubert, Garland and Harry Elwood Lockridge.

Other survivors include one daughter, Judith Lockridge, Overland Park, Kan.; one son, Denton Clark, Gallatin; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.