Bessie Lee Wood^[1]

1905 - 2005  (99 years)

• Name	Bessie Lee Wood
  Born	21 Jun 1905	Campbell County, Tennessee
  Gender	Female
  Died	10 Mar 2005	Lake City, Tennessee   [2]
  Buried	12 Mar 2005	Norris Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Andersonville, Anderson County, Tennessee   [3]
  Person ID	I69950	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2012

  
  

  Father	William Rube Wood,   b. Abt 1883, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 8 Feb 1998  (Age ~ 115 years)
  Mother	Lucy Mae Irwin,   b. Abt 1883, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 8 Feb 1998  (Age ~ 115 years)
  Married	Abt 1904
  Family ID	F26164	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Oscar Gipson "Gip" Ridenour,   b. 8 Oct 1893, Anderson County, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Dec 1974, Anderson County, Tennessee  (Age 81 years)
  Married	25 Dec 1921	Anderson County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Opal Ridenour,   b. 8 Oct 1922, Agee, Campbell County, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Feb 2005  (Age 82 years) + 2. Nona Grace Ridenour,   b. 2 Jul 1924, Anderson County, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Apr 2011  (Age 86 years) + 3. William Rule Ridenour,   b. 12 Jan 1926, Anderson County, Tennessee ,   d. 8 Apr 1994  (Age 68 years)   4. Oscar George Ridenour,   b. 1 Dec 1927, Kildav, Kentucky ,   d. 28 Apr 1930  (Age 2 years)
  Family ID	F26136	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 21 Jun 1905 - Campbell County, Tennessee Married - 25 Dec 1921 - Anderson County, Tennessee Buried - 12 Mar 2005 - Norris Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Andersonville, Anderson County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] Ancestors are Forever, A Ridenour Collection from 893 to 1997 AD, Melvin Otho "Mo" Ridenour, (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/e/i/James-A-Reitnauer/FILE/0001text.txt), 607, 1268, 1 Jan 2000. [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 10 Mar 2005. RIDENOUR, BESSIE LEE WOOD - age 99 of Newport, TN., formerly of the Medford Community in Lake City, TN, passed away Thursday, March 10, 2005 at the home of her daughter in Newport, TN. She was born June 21, 1905 in Campbell County, TN., in the Agee Community, now covered by waters of the Norris Dam. She was a member of Lake City United Methodist Church. She was a member of W.M.U. and the Medford F.C.E. She was a craft person, doing rug hooking, bottoming chairs with corn shucks, and making hats out of corn shucks. She made old fashioned bonnets, and did crocheting and quilting. She loved gardening, and enjoyed canning and freezing the produce she raised. She sold craft items to a craft shop at the Museum of Appalachia, the Community Craft Center on Hwy 61, and to craft stores in New York and Asheville, North Carolina. She is preceded in death by: her husband of 53 years, O.G. (Gip) Ridenour; daughter, Opal Houchin of Raleigh, NC; 2 sons, George, two and one half years old, & William RIdenour; parents, William R. & Lucy May Irwin Wood; 4 sisters, Margaret Davis, Mabel Bolinger, Dorothy Vowell, and Ammone Miller; two brothers, J. Will Wood & Sam Wood; and son-in-law, Vernon Houchin. Survivors: daughter, Nona & husband, William Agee, Newport, TN; daughter-in-law, Imo Jean RIdenour, Lake City, TN; grandchildren, Ella Lee & husband Gary Ford, Newport TN, Judy & husband Glenn Smith, Atlanta, GA, Tommy Houchin & wife Barbara, Nashville, TN, Eddy Houchin & wife Jane, Raleigh, NC, Terry Ridenour & wife Sandy, Lake City, TN, James Agee & wife, Terri, Morristown, TN; great grandchildren, Molly Ford, Lee, Greg, Joe, Charlie & Abby Houchin, Alex & Bradley Ridenour, Michele Cauthen; many nieces and nephews and friends. Visitation 2:00 pm Saturday, March 12, 2005 at the Lake City United Methodist Church. Funeral services 2:00 pm Saturday, March 12, 2005 at the Lake City United Methodist Church with Rev. Brenda Poole officiating. Interment to follow funeral service at the Norris Memorial Gardens in Norris, TN. Hatmaker Funeral Home of Lake City in charge of arrangements. [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 57376242).