Colleen Everidge

Colleen Singleton Everidge of Stroh, Indiana, passed peacefully in her sleep on September 24, 2025, at Lakeland Skilled Nursing Home in Angola, Indiana. She will be remembered for her kind heart, superior cooking and knitting skills, quiet curiosity and intelligence, as well as always putting her family first. Mrs. Everidge was born on February 12, 1929, to the late Ida (Ritchie) Singleton and Linville Singleton in Perry County, Kentucky. She met Eulaus Harold Everidge in Kentucky, and they were married shortly thereafter. They had two children, Kathleen Kim (Everidge) Meyer in 1955, and John F. Everidge in 1961. They both survive in LaGrange County. She was employed at Dana Corporation in Angola, working alongside her beloved sisters-in-law until retirement. In addition to her children, survivors include a daughter-in-law, Cheryl Everidge; five grandchildren, Christopher Meyer of LaGrange County, Emily Meyer Mead of Chattanooga Tennessee, Casey Everidge Acker of Kendallville, Jon Everidge of LaGrange, and Lindsey Everidge of LaGrange; three great-grandchildren, Ethan Heltzel of Auburn, Isaac Ellis of Kendallville, and Brieah Acker of Kendallville. She is also survived by two brothers-in-law and two sisters-in-law, Ada Mae Everidge of Angola, Morris Combs of Stroh, and Ron (Nan) Everidge of LaGrange. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eulaus Harold Everidge, in 1967; her brother, Linville Singleton; two brothers-in-law, Jimmy Everidge and Clyde Everidge; and three sisters-in-law, Gloria Everidge, Edith Singleton, and Patty Everidge Combs. She was also preceded in death by her uncle, Willie Ritchie. Please join us to celebrate her life on Monday, September 29, 2025, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Young Family Funeral Home, Wolcottville Chapel, State Road 9 North, Wolcottville. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" -AA Milne