Obituary for Jimmy Frank Bridges
Funeral services for Jimmy Frank Bridges, 81, will be held Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church with Dr. W.D. Green officiating. Burial will follow in Childress Cemetery under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 5-7 p.m. at Johnson Funeral Home.
He passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Wellington.
Jimmy was born October 6, 1941 in Childress to Olen C. Bridges and Leona Burns Bridges.
He worked hard his entire life and was an auto mechanic from an early age. He bought his service center 50 years ago and was in the wrecker business for over 50 years. He also enjoyed farming and ranching and purchased his first place in 1975. Jimmy taught his daughter Crystal to drive the hay trailer at a young age. He enjoyed his cooler of beer while he tended to his cows. Eight-year-old Crystal was helping him one day but he neglected to put water in the cooler for her. She was very thirsty and upon noticing he had no water, he handed her a beer and said, "here, take a couple sips of that." He loved his cows and always had to be working. He did not know how to sit still. In more recent years, he enjoyed driving around listening to Willie's Roadhouse on his satellite radio, watching black and white westerns on TV and going to the casinos in Oklahoma.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ann Bridges; an infant daughter, Brenda Catherine; a brother, Arlis Bridges, and a sister, Laverne Richardson.
Survivors include his four children, Janice Colson and Billy, Jimmy L. Bridges, Crystal McFaul, and Tesire Sanders; grandchildren, Katie McFaul and fiance Justin Cassidy; a brother, Clemon Bridges; three sisters, Marilyn Slape, Janie Smith and husband Joe Dean, and Wanda Clements; and numerous extended family members and friends.
He passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Wellington.
Jimmy was born October 6, 1941 in Childress to Olen C. Bridges and Leona Burns Bridges.
He worked hard his entire life and was an auto mechanic from an early age. He bought his service center 50 years ago and was in the wrecker business for over 50 years. He also enjoyed farming and ranching and purchased his first place in 1975. Jimmy taught his daughter Crystal to drive the hay trailer at a young age. He enjoyed his cooler of beer while he tended to his cows. Eight-year-old Crystal was helping him one day but he neglected to put water in the cooler for her. She was very thirsty and upon noticing he had no water, he handed her a beer and said, "here, take a couple sips of that." He loved his cows and always had to be working. He did not know how to sit still. In more recent years, he enjoyed driving around listening to Willie's Roadhouse on his satellite radio, watching black and white westerns on TV and going to the casinos in Oklahoma.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Ann Bridges; an infant daughter, Brenda Catherine; a brother, Arlis Bridges, and a sister, Laverne Richardson.
Survivors include his four children, Janice Colson and Billy, Jimmy L. Bridges, Crystal McFaul, and Tesire Sanders; grandchildren, Katie McFaul and fiance Justin Cassidy; a brother, Clemon Bridges; three sisters, Marilyn Slape, Janie Smith and husband Joe Dean, and Wanda Clements; and numerous extended family members and friends.