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Obituary for Bridgers


Published in the Albuquerque Journal on Tuesday May 25, 1999

Frances Young Bridgers, 77, of Gulf Breeze, Florida died Saturday, April 17th, 1999. Funeral services were April 20th, and she was laid to rest at Rose Lawn Cemetery, in Gulf Breeze. She was married for 51 years to John Bridgers, retired football coach and former athletic director of Florida State and the University of New Mexico. John and Frances Bridgers resided in Albuquerque from 1979 to 1987. Mrs. Bridgers was born Frances Hamilton Young, the daughter of a well known physician in Florence, Alabama. She is best remembered for her gracious Southern charm and her devotion as a wife and mother. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Cynthia McMahan Stewart. She is survived by her husband, John Bridgers of Gulf Breeze, Florida; two sons, Dixon Bridgers and his wife, Anne Horne Bridgers of Mobile, Ala. and Donald H. Bridgers and his wife, Janet Potter Bridgers of Albuquerque, NM; five granddaughters, Jenni Grove, Penny Smith and Missi Frazier of Waco, TX, Leslie and Lucy Bridgers of Mobile, Ala.; and two grandsons, Daniel and Aaron Bridgers of Albuquerque.


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