Saturday, September 18, 2004

Alta A. Vidricksen, 87, of Bartlesville died at 3:32 p.m. Wednesday in the Silverlake Care Center.

Services are scheduled to 11 a.m. Monday in the Walker-Brown Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jerry Deffenbaugh officiating. Pallbearers will be James House, Curtis Lunsford, Bill Lunsford, Jerry Reeves, Allen Purkey and Mike Purkey. Final committal rites will be accorded Mrs. Vidricksen in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Nowata, Oklahoma under the direction of the Walker-Brown Funeral Home.

Alta was born April 15, 1917 near Tyro, Kansas to Dovea (Royer) and Wilmot Hewitt. She move numerous times, but lived her entire life within a 50 mile radius of Bartlesville. For the last 30 years she has lived in Bartlesville with her husband Roy Vidrickson. She worked as a waitress in Coffeyville, Kan. and Tulsa, as well as Bartlesville. She was an avid shuffleboard player until her health failed in April 2002.

She was preceeded in death by her parents, three husbands, a daughter, Louise Chambers and a great granddaughter, Robin Ihry.

Mrs. Vidricksen is survived by her husband of the home; two daughters, Carlene and her husband Charles Beam of Bella Vista, Ark., Wanda and her husband, Bud Purkey, of rural Coffeyville, Kan.; five grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; three step-children; three brothers and four sisters.