Beatrice Bridges

Beatrice Bridges age 92 of Hampton, formerly of Plainfield, died Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at the Franklin County General Hospital. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 25, 2012, at the First Baptist Church, Plainfield, with Pastor Shawn Geer presiding. Interment will be in Willow Lawn Cemetery, Plainfield with Patrick Bridges, Jared Stewart, Darren Bridges, Andrew Bridges, Abigail Bridges Barkman and Shiona Stewart Chambers. Honorary pallbearers are Stuart Bridges, Dawn Bridges Lofland, Jennifer Bridges Johnson, Eric Bridges, Vicki Bridges, Kristin Bridges Mast, Andrea Bridges Klopfenstein and Stephanie Bridges Wallace. Friends may greet the family 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Friday, August 24, 2012, at the Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home in Nashua. Visitation continues an hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. If so desired, memorials may be given in Bea's memory to the First Baptist Church in Plainfield, IA. Beatrice Andrea Bridges was born April 16, 1920, in Dike, IA, the daughter of Franklin P. and Melinda E. (Huntley) Pipher. She received her education in Liscomb, IA. On July 20, 1935, she married Floyd Bridges at the First Baptist Parsonage in Marshalltown, IA. To this union five children were born. The couple lived and worked in and around the Marshalltown area before settling on a farm near Plainfield, IA, in 1947. Bea was very active at the First Baptist Church in Plainfield where she had been the Sunday School Secretary for many years. She will be remembered by her family as being a devoted wife, mother and grandmother who was a superb cook and caretaker for her family. Survivors include four sons, Roger (Karen) Bridges of Bloomington, IL, Kenneth (Barbara L.) Bridges of Breaux Bridge, LA, Wayne (Barbara H.) of Beaverton, OR, Darrel (Esther) Bridges of Belleview FL; one daughter, Bonnie (Steve) Stewart of Hampton; fourteen grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband on January 21, 2011, and two infant brothers.