11/03/2004
Graveside services for Esther Faye (Brees) Wooldridge, 65, of Harvey, who died Nov. 3, 2004 at the
Comfort House in Pella and was cremated, will be held with her immediate family at a later
date at the Eureka Cemetery in Harvey.
Wooldridge was born Nov. 11, 1938, the daughter of Walter and Ruth (Kelly) Brees.
She attended grade school at the Blain rural school in Red Rock and high school in Knoxville.
She married Donald Buck Wooldridge on June 29, 1973, in Knoxville.
They made their home in Pershing until 1980 when they moved to Harvey.
Wooldridge worked for 24 years at the Pella Overall Factory in Knoxville, Oskaloosa, and Pella, and remained employed at Pella until the factory closed. She then worked part-time at the Red Rock Quick Stop at Pella for three years and
quit due to her health.
Wooldridge was preceded in death by her parents; twin sisters, Jane and June, and her brother-in-law, Chester Isley of Russell.
She is survived by her husband; two sons: Alan LaFollette and Mary of Phoenix, Ariz. and Dwight LaFollette and Belinda
of Harvey; one sister: Mary Isley of Russell; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren;her nephew, Don, of Perry;
her niece, Nance, of Lovilia; a sister-in-law, Jane “Jiggs” Bales of Tracy, whom she thought of as a sister and many friends.