1955-2021
Funeral services for Colleen Muriel Ridenour, 65 yearold Thomas resident, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, February 27, 2021, at Freedom Worship Center with Jerry Yoder and Reg Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Mound Valley Cemetery under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Thomas.
Colleen Ridenour was born to Ding (Wilbur) and Dee Dee (Corinne) Krull March 8, 1955, in Austin, Minnesota. Colleen passed to the peace of the Lord February 22, 2021, in her home at Thomas after a short but difficult battle with cancer.
Colleen grew up in Southeast Minnesota, where she met the love of her life at 16 years of age and thereafter married Denny (Dennis) Ridenour in a small ceremony in Springfield, Missouri, June 17, 1972. Denny and Colleen initially made their home in Missouri and then returned to Minnesota before moving to Oklahoma in 1984.
In Oklahoma, Colleen attended realty school with her mom and became a realtor in Weatherford, until she retired about 10 years ago. Colleen attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University in the 1990s and earned her master’s degree in Psychology, graduating in 1996.
Survivors include: her husband, Denny; her daughter, Roshelle Wherritt and her husband, Rodney; her son, Wayne and his wife, Rita; six granddaughters, Regan Lemieux and her husband, Hayden, Rosalind Wherritt, Rayne Wherritt, Ali Ridenour, Taylor Ridenour, and Shelby Ridenour, all of Thomas; her brother, Wayne Krull and his wife, Marsha, of Thomas; Karen Clapham and her husband, Bill, of Dubuque, Iowa; her sister, Lisa Goucher and her husband, Steve, of Rockwall, Texas; and her step-father, Richard Gieser, of Thomas.
Colleen was preceded in death by her parents and her brother John Krull.
Memorials may be made to Corn Bible Academy.