Friends and family have shared their relationship to show their support.

How do you know Melba Baldridge?

Family Friend Work Other

We are sorry for your loss.

Help others honor Melba's memory.

Copy

Coping with Grief

We would like to offer our sincere support to anyone coping with grief. Enter your email below for our complimentary daily grief messages. Messages run for up to one year and you can stop at any time. Your email will not be used for any other purpose.

Official Obituary of

Melba Baldridge

October 20, 1947 ~ January 7, 2014 (age 66) 66 Years Old

Melba Baldridge Obituary

Melba Delores Baldridge, 66, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. passed away Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Mrs. Baldridge was born October 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Mo. She enjoyed playing bingo, crocheting, and playing with her grandchildren. She was of the Baptist faith.

She married Gary Baldridge in 2002. He survives.

Also surviving include her children, Megan Berry and husband Marc, Jamie Ivy and wife Valerie, Jeramie Ivy and wife, Stacie and Jason Ivy; stepdaughters, Andrea Baldridge and Bettina Blackburn; her father, Ruford Bazzell; two sisters, Carline Robinson and Bernice Borden; brothers, Lonnie Bazzell, Ronnie Bazzell, Emery Bazzell and Dewayne Bazzell; grandchildren, Joshua Ivy, Emmaleigh Ivy, Madison Berry; step-grandchildren, Shawn Blackburn and Alyssa Blackburn, as well as one grandchild on the way.

She is preceded in death by her mother, Izetta (Moore) Bazzell.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, January 11, 2014 at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home, in Poplar Bluff, followed by funeral services at 12 noon. Ron Fowler will officiate. Burial will be in the Cochran Cemetery.

To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Melba Baldridge, please visit our floral store.