STURGES, Paul Warrick - b. September 20, 1918 - d. September 3, 2007

[Janet Harrington]

The funeral service for Paul Warrick Sturges, 88, of Sedan, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Sedan with the Revs. Dean McNamara and Barbara K. Bloxsom officiating.  Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Sedan.

Mr. Sturges died Monday at Sedan City Hospital.

Friends may call until 9 p.m. today at David W. Barnes Funeral Home at Sedan.

Memorials are suggested to First Baptist Church, the Chautauqua County Home Health Department of the Sedan City Hospital.  Donations may be left with the funeral home.

Mrs. Sturges was born Sept. 20, 1918 at rural Sedan, the son of Warrick Star and Effie Pearl (Zollman) Sturges.  He graduated from Sedan High School in 1937.

He married Ruth Wasson on Dec. 23, 1944 in the First Baptist Church parsonage in Sedan.  She survives at the home.

He farmed with his brothers and in 1968 began working for O&B Oil Company of Elk Falls.  He retired in 1993.

He was a member of First Baptist Church of Sedan, where he was a deacon and trustee, and he was active in the Men's Fellowship.  He won his classification at the World Horshoe Pitching Tournament in Biloxi, Miss., in 1991.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Sturges is survived by two sons, Howard Sturges, Napa, Calif., and Jim Sturges, Purcellville, Va; a daughter, Sally Sturges, Sedan; five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.