IONA ELIZABETH HEDGE

ADVANCE -- Iona Elizabeth Hedge of Advance died on Saturday, Sept. 20, 1997, at the Bonds Nursing Center in Marble Hill. She was 89.

She was born Sept. 12, 1908, in Bollinger County, daughter of Amos and Alice Davault Ridings. On May 26, 1926, she married Elsie Ridings in Marble Hill. He died in November 1951. She later married Monte Hedge in Mississippi in October 1953. He died in March 1980.

She worked until her retirement at the Inland Shoe Co. in Advance.

She is survived by two sons, Don Ridings of Otter Lake, Mich., and Von Ridings of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Gladys Adamson of Sikeston; eight grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.

Visitation will be from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel, with Brother Wayne Page officiating. Interment will follow in Morgan Memorial Park.