1923
Wilhelmena
2014
Wilhelmena Rigby
October 11, 1923 — December 25, 2014
Funeral services for Mrs. Wilhelmena Rigby will be conducted on Saturday morning, December 27, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. from the Ott & Lee Funeral Home Chapel in Forest with Rev. Tim Fungay officiating. Music for the service will be provided by Dr. Jim Everett, soloist, and Mrs. Janet Everett, organist. Burial will be in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, in the Piketon Community under the direction of Ott & Lee Funeral Home in Forest.
Visitation will be Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until 10:45 A.M. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Rigby, a resident of the Mississippi Care Center at Morton, and a longtime resident of Forest, passed away Christmas Day, December 25, 2014 at the age of 91.
She was a native of Scott County, born on October 11, 1923 to her parents Henry and Mary Turner. Mrs. Wilhelmena enjoyed cooking, sewing, crocheting, and embroidering. She loved her Lord and to read her Bible, and was a member of Sulphur Springs Baptist Church. “Aunt Mena” enjoyed life and lived it to the fullest. She will be missed.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband: Chester L. Rigby; her sister: Margaret Ruth Vance and Mary Alline McDill; and her brothers: George, Huel, Lee, Pat, and A.T. Turner; and one half brother-in-law: Ted Rigby.
Survivors include three sisters-in-law: Pauline McDill of Forest; Thelma Gardner of Union; and Lucille Cox of Sebastopol; one half-sister-in-law: Janet Rigby of Forest; one half brother-in-law: Malcolm Rigby of Forest and a host of nieces and nephews
Visitation will be Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until 10:45 A.M. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Rigby, a resident of the Mississippi Care Center at Morton, and a longtime resident of Forest, passed away Christmas Day, December 25, 2014 at the age of 91.
She was a native of Scott County, born on October 11, 1923 to her parents Henry and Mary Turner. Mrs. Wilhelmena enjoyed cooking, sewing, crocheting, and embroidering. She loved her Lord and to read her Bible, and was a member of Sulphur Springs Baptist Church. “Aunt Mena” enjoyed life and lived it to the fullest. She will be missed.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband: Chester L. Rigby; her sister: Margaret Ruth Vance and Mary Alline McDill; and her brothers: George, Huel, Lee, Pat, and A.T. Turner; and one half brother-in-law: Ted Rigby.
Survivors include three sisters-in-law: Pauline McDill of Forest; Thelma Gardner of Union; and Lucille Cox of Sebastopol; one half-sister-in-law: Janet Rigby of Forest; one half brother-in-law: Malcolm Rigby of Forest and a host of nieces and nephews
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