Susie Lillian Riddle-Vincent

Susie Lillian Riddle-Vincent, 98, died Monday evening, Nov. 20, 2006, surrounded by her family at Community Hospital of Anaconda.

Susie Lillian was born on Jan. 7, 1908, in Lansing, Iowa, the oldest of six children born to Mortimer P. and Lillian Cora (Curry) Bacon. With her parents, she moved to Alberton, in 1910 by train, where her father was the telegraph operator and ticket agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad in Alberton.

Susie graduated from Alberton High School in 1925 and continued her education and graduated with a teaching certificate from Eastern Washington Normal School in Cheney, Wash. She taught at the Quigley School on lower Rock Creek in Granite County.

While teaching and living with the Ham family on Rock Creek, she met William Edmund Riddle, known as "Gig," who worked for the Forest Service; they were married on Jan. 9, 1927. The marriage was blessed with a son, William Edmund Riddle II. After the death of her husband Gig on Dec. 12, 1942, Susie went to work for the Air Force in Spokane, Wash., transferring to the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Harrison in 1944. In 1948, she was transferred to the Veterans Administration Domiciliary in Medford, Ore., where she served as Finance Officer until retiring in 1966.

On July 24, 1953, she married Jess G. Vincent in Medford, Ore., an employee of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone. After their retirement, they traveled extensively in the United States, visiting all but three states. They also traveled into Canada, Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand. In 1967, they moved to East Glacier Park, to be closer to her son Bill and his family in Browning. In 1973, they moved to Hot Springs, where they lived until Jess died in January of 1999. Following his death, Susie moved to Anaconda where she lived at Hearthstone Apartments until the last year, when her health started to fail, she made her home at Community Nursing Home of Anaconda.

She was a life member of the Order of Eastern Star and while living in Hot Springs was a member of the Hot Springs Senior Citizens, the Hot Springs Federated Womans Club and served on the board of the Sanders County Council of Aging.

Susie kept busy during her long life crocheting, knitting; she knitted jackets for many family members, as well as slippers, mittens, etc. She also made ceramic figurines and was an avid reader.

She is survived by her youngest sibling Mort Bacon of Alberton; three grandchildren, William E. "Gig" Riddle III of Cut Bank, Linda K. Riddle of Great Falls, and Tim A. Riddle and wife Kathy of Anaconda; daughter-in-law Eva M. Riddle of Anaconda; 10 great-grandchildren and spouses: Charles (Jamie) Farmer, Damon (Angie) Riddle, Eron (Jeannine) Riddle, Joe (Shandi ) Sitzmann, Bobbi Sue Sitzmann, Chani Raine Riddle, Jess Riddle, Jaime Riddle, McKenzie Riddle and Emily Rose Riddle; five great-great-grandchildren: Tyler John and William Farmer, Allison and Brian Riddle and Jaden Sitzmann; a special nephew Jim (Martha) Scourey of St. Maries, Idaho; stepson and wife Dale "Jim" (Imogene) of Medford, Ore.; two stepgrandchildren and spouses, Clifford (Maria) Vincent of Sydney, Australia, Gale (Merlin) Bashons of Rogue River, Ore.; two stepgreat-grandchildren Melanie (Chris) Johnson, and Nathanial Kinman; two stepgreat-great-grandchildren Anthony and Nathan; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, Susie was preceded in death by her son William E. "Bill" Riddle II, who died Oct. 3, 1995, brother Bud Bacon, who died in 1986, three sisters Adah Scourey, who died in 1962, Cora Cornwall, who died in 1994, and Elizabeth Randall, who died in 1997.

Visitation/wake will be held Sunday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Anaconda Chapel of KT Riddle Funeral Homes, where the Order of Eastern Star Eureka Chapter No. 16 will conduct their ritual service 7 p.m. Sunday evening.

Graveside services will be held Monday afternoon, Nov. 27, 2006, 1 p.m. in the Ruth Bennett Memorial Chapel at the Missoula City Cemetery, Missoula, and visitation will be held one hour prior to service time at chapel. Burial will follow where she will be laid to rest with her husband Jess Vincent, and her son Bill Riddle.

Memorials are requested to Shriners Children Hospitals, Discovery House of Anaconda, and Community Hospital and Nursing Home Foundation, Anaconda.

Services are under the care of the KT Riddle Funeral Homes, Anaconda.

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