Tessa PRIDGEON ( - )
1 Tessa PRIDGEON1 ( - ) [6926].
2 William PRIDGEON2 ( - ) [2918]. Marr Martha BENGE 1973.1
4 Dean Malcolm PRIDGEON2,3,4,5,6 (1921-2012) [2917]. Born 22 Jun 1921, Montgomery, MI.5,7 Marr Olive Mary MCCONEGHY 24 Nov 1939.1,7 Marr Gloria Fenstermaker BERLIEN 1 Jul 1995.1,7 Died 25 Aug 2012, Coldwater, MI.7 Buried California Cemetery, Branch Co.7
From the Holland Evening Sentinal.
January 17, 1969 - "GRAND HAVEN - The Grand Haven Jaycees are continuing plans for the program to be held March 1 in Grand Haven when the State's Outstanding Young Farmer will be named. State Chairman Roger Bramer announced that the following have named judges: Larry P. Wisniewski of East Lansing, who is assistant vice president of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank; Dayton Mitlock, Lansing, editor of the Michigan Farmer Magazine, and Dean M. Pridgeon a hog and grain farmer from Montgomery who was state of Michigan Jaycee Outstanding Young Farmer in 1956-57."
From Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
"Dean Pridgeon, Montgomery. Distinguished Service Awards - Agricultural and Natural Resources Week, 1970. A recognized agricultural leader, he was named Michigan's Outstanding Farmer in 1956. As vice-president of the Michigan Farm Bureau and a membeer of several other farm organizations, he has unselfishly served Michigan agriculture in many wasy, giving freely of his personal time and efforts."
From the Sturgis Journal, Saturday, January 3, l981, page 7.
"TOP HONOR FOR PRIDGEON'" Dean Pridgeon, Michigan Department of Agriculture director, was presented the Michigan Farm Bureau's highest honor during ceremonies at the organization's annual banquet. ...Pridgeon is a member of a farm partnership near Montgomery in Branch County with his father, Glen, and two sons, Michael and Bill. The sixth generation farming operation now markets 8,000 hogs a year....He has been Michigan Department of Agriculture director since December l978.".
8 Glen Dean PRIDGEON3,5,8,9 (1892-1989) [823]. Born 11 Dec 1892.8,9 Died 26 Jul 1989, Coldwater, Branch County, MI.8 Buried California Township Cemetery.10
From the Holland Evening Sentinal.
June 10, 1964 - "Annual Farm Tour Set This Year - EAST LANSING - Effective farm management to meet two types of emergencies will be seen this summer as part of the annual state farm management tour. The tour was started in 1949 by the Michigan Cooperative Extension Service. That year it was a two day trip that showed farmers the activities of their counterparts in Lenawee, Hillsdale and Branch Counties. This year, on Aug. 5, the tour group will return to Branch County to visit two farms during the day. One emergency, the shifting demand from farm products - made a major change on the Pridgeon Farm in the southeastern corner of the county. In 1949 when the tour visited the same farm it was operated in dairy by Glen Pridgeon. Now his son, Dean, operates it as an entirely pork production farm.
9 Lorene Harriett MITCHELL3,5,8,11 (1898-1996) [2915]. Born 23 Apr 1898.8 Died 13 Apr 1996, Coldwater, Branch County, MI.8 Buried 17 Apr 1996, California Cemetery, Branch County, MI.10,12
5 Olive Mary MCCONEGHY1 (1921-1991) [6619]. Born 23 Jul 1921.13 Died 14 Dec 1991, Lansing, Ingham Co., MI.1,13,14 Buried California Cemetery, Montgomery, MI.15
3 Martha BENGE1 ( - ) [4004].
Sources
| 1 | "Information provided by Barbara Pridgeon Miller". |
| 2 | "Sturgis Journal, Saturday, January 3, 1981, Page 7". |
| 3 | "Information provided by Joyce McClain". |
| 4 | "Obituary of John Warren Pridgeon from the Observer-Dispatch (Utica NY), March 19, 2004". |
| 5 | "1930 MI, Branch, California census". |
| 6 | "U.S. Public Records Index". |
| 7 | "Obituary of Dean Malcolm Pridgeon in The Daily Reporter, Coldwater, MI, August 27, 2012". |
| 8 | "Michigan Department of Vital Health Records, Michigan Death Index, Lansing, MI 1971". |
| 9 | "WWI Selective Service registration card". |
| 10 | "California Corners Cemetery Records". |
| 11 | "Obituary Daily Times web site". |
| 12 | "Obituary of Lorene Harriet Pridgeon in The News-Sentinel, April 15, 1996.". |
| 13 | "Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996". |
| 14 | "Obituary of Mary [Olive Mary] Pridgeon in theNews-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, December 16, 1991 ". |
| 15 | "Obituary of Mary [Olive Mary] Pridgeon in theNews-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, December 16, 1991". |
