ISABELLE RIDDLE 1925-2024

Isabelle Riddle passed away on September 14, 2024, at the age of 99. She was a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, Maryland until moving to Pennsylvania in 2016. Isabelle was born in Brookville, Pennsylvania in 1925. She was the daughter of Dora and Edwin Hendricks and brother of George Hendricks. The family moved to Aberdeen in 1943, and Isabelle began working at Aberdeen Proving Ground. She met her husband, Myrle Riddle, at the USO in Aberdeen and they married in July,1945. She worked at APG until her son Michael was born in 1949. A daughter, Mary Lynn, joined the family in 1950. After her children were grown and left Aberdeen to pursue careers and raise their own families, she returned to work at APG until retiring in 1985.

Isabelle was an avid and talented basket weaver, a member of the Grace Methodist Church and the Golden Age Club of Aberdeen. Above all, she was loving and devoted to her family and generous and gracious with those who were blessed to know her. She is survived by her son Michael of Matthews, NC, daughter Mary Lynn Barton of Cambridge Springs, PA, five grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren, all of whom will miss her dearly and remember her lovingly.

A visitation will be held at Tarring Cargo Funeral Home in Aberdeen, MD, on September 28, 2024, from 12:30p – 1:30pm where a funeral service will begin at 1:30pm. Interment will be at Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD following. Isabelle requested donations in her memory be made to the Aberdeen Fire Department and the Grace Methodist Church.

Isabelle A. Riddle

April 17, 1925 - September 14, 2024

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