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a. Note:   COUNCIL BLUFFS DAILY NONPAREIL MARCH 7, 2001
  JOSEPH L. LIDGETT JR.
  EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK. - A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JOSEPH L. LIDGETT JR., 79, OF HOLIDAY ISLAND, ARK., WILL BE SATURDAY AT 3 p.m. AT THE HOLIDAY ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH WITH THE REV. DEDE AUTRY OFFICIATING.
  MR. LIDGETT DIED MARCH 3.
  HE WAS BORN NOV. 19, 1921, IN COUNCIL BLUFFS TO JOSEPH LESTER AND HELEN HENRIETTA (BUEHHOLZ) LIDGETT. HE SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II AND WAS HELD PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY. HE WORKED FOR THE OMAHA PRINTING CO. IN OMAHA FOR 40 YEARS, RETIRING AS CHIEF ENGINEER IN 1986. HE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS AND THE EX-AMERICAN POW'S. HE WAS A PAST MASTER OF COBIA MASONIC LODGE NO. 631 IN COUNCIL BLUFFS AND WAS A MEMBER OF BASIN SPRING MASONIC LODGE NO. 386 IN EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE ORIENT OF THE OZARKS SCOTTISH RITE, VALLEY OF FORT SMITH AND THE EUREKA SPRINGS METHODIST CHURCH, WAS A PAST PRESIDENT OF THE HOLIDAY ISLAND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND LUTHER'S CHARCOAL BURNERS. HE SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE EUREKA SPRINGS HOSPITAL GUILD, MEALS ON WHEELS AND THE CARROLL COUNTY COUNCIL OF AGING.
  MR. LIDGETT AND HIS WIFE MARJORIE (SNYDER), WERE MARRIED JUNE 20, 1946.
  SURVIVORS IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE INCLUDE THREE SONS, DAVID AND WIFE, KAREN, OF WICHITA, KAN., ROBERT AND WIFE, CYNTHIA, OF DES MOINES AND JEFFREY AND WIFE, KIMBERLY, OF OMAHA;
 A SISTER, RUTH THOMAS, OF HOLIDAY ISLAND; EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
  NELSON FUNERAL SERVICE IN EUREKA SPRINGS IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.
  MEMORIALS MAY BE OFFERED TO THE EUREKA SPRINGS METHODIST CHURCH BUILDING FUND.


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