Juanita Ivah Aldridge Geisler, 79, daughter of Luther I. Aldridge and Tennie J. Ice, was born April 22, 1924, near Yukon in Texas County. She died Jan. 24, 2004, at Houston House. She was a member of the Tyrone Free Will Baptist Church and later attended the Cabool Assembly of God. She married Earl G. Irish Sept. 25, 1942. He was a minister and she helped with his work. They had one son. Mr. Irish died July 27, 1989. She married Andrew Geisler March 3, 1996. He died July 3, 1997. In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents and a baby sister. Surviving are one son, Paul Eugene Irish; four stepchildren, Laura Mae, Jerrel, Sue and Terry Geisler; two brothers, Herman Aldridge of Cabool and Thurman Aldridge of Springfield; two sisters, Oneta Holloway of Springfield and Laveta Kelley of Huggins; four grandchildren and several step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Services were Jan. 26 at the Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home Chapel in Cabool with the Rev. Darrel Loughridge officiating. Burial was in the Cabool Cemetery. “
