Date of birth: 26 Mar 1947
Date of death: 19 Aug 1995

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Burial Information

Section 04 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 036A-06
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US NAVY
Rank: HN - Hospitalman
War/Campaign: VIETNAM - Purple Heart
Military Notes: Vietnam War veteran and recipient of two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star

Military Inscription
HN
US Navy
Vietnam
PURPLE HEART

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Notes

Obituary
Samuel J. Bridgers, III

Samuel J. Bridgers III, 48, a Belzoni police officer, died of heart failure Saturday at his home.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, August 21 in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington. Mortimer Funeral Home in Belzoni handled the arrangements.

Mr. Bridgers, a Lexington native, was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Belzoni and was a Mason, a Vietnam War veteran and recipient of two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. He had worked as a police officer with the City of Belzoni for 22 years.

Survivors include: parents, Sam J. and Frances Vandiver Bridgers of Belzoni; sisters, Paula B. Griffin and Melinda B. Andrus, both of Moorhead.

Memorials may go to First Presbyterian Church in Belzoni.

The Holmes County Herald – Page 3
Lexington, MS
August 24, 1995

Burial: 21 Aug 1995

Military Inscription

HN
US Navy
Vietnam
PURPLE HEART

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