Bertha Knoop "PETIE" Ridgway

RIDGWAY-Bertha (PETIE) Knoop Ridgway, passed away peacefully December 21, 2010 at the age of 89 at the Broadview Christian Science Nursing Home. Petie (as she was commonly known to family and friends) was the fourth of seven sisters who grew up and lived in the Pasadena area. After her graduation from Westridge and U.C. Berkley, Petie later returned to the Pasadena area and worked for several years as the librarian for the Huntington Library, and the Pasadena and San Marino Libraries. She was a loyal and faithful servant to both the San Marino and Pasadena Christian Science Churches having spent her last years as the librarian in the San Marino Church Reading Room. She is survived by her sister, Constance Ridgway Funsten, and thirty nieces, nephews and family to whom she was a loving and devoted aunt. The family will hold a private memorial service.