{"id":493,"date":"2011-08-30T03:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/anderson2\/?p=493"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:32:49","slug":"obituary-of-lewis-l-ridenour-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/08\/obituary-of-lewis-l-ridenour-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Ridenour, Lewis L., 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, April 15, 1965, Section 1, page 8:<\/p>\n<p><strong>L. L. Ridenour dies after brief illness<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lewis L. Ridenour, 88, 212 Oak St., Clinton, died at his home Sunday after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ridenour, who was a member of the Campbell County Court for 18 years, taught in the Campbell County schools for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was an active member of Memorial Methodist Church.\u00a0 For a number of years, he had made a daily visit to the Courthouse in Clinton, stopping to visit with various county officials and others around the Courthouse.\u00a0 His daily trips were interrupted only by his recent illness.<\/p>\n<p>He was past state counselor of the Junior Order of American Mechanics and was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.\u00a0 Although a widely known leader in Republican activities, Mr. Ridenour was recently made a colonel on the staff of Gov. Frank Clement.\u00a0 He was also made an honorary citizen of Knoxville and of Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ridenour is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elphia Layne Ridenour; four sons, J. Carson, a Clinton attorney; George W., Anderson County Trustee; Sweetwater attorney Billy R., and Robert T. Ridenour, with the U. S. Navy in Portsmouth, Va.; 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Memorial Methodist Church with the Rev. J. Fort Fowler officiating.\u00a0 Burial was in Newcomb Cemetery in Campbell County.<\/p>\n<p>[Transcribed by Stephanie A. Hill from a photocopy of the microfilmed original\u00a0in the genealogy vertical files at the Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Courier-News, April 15, 1965, Section 1, page 8: L. L. Ridenour dies after brief illness.\u00a0 Lewis L. Ridenour, 88, 212 Oak St., Clinton, died at his home Sunday after <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/08\/obituary-of-lewis-l-ridenour-1965\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}