Ida M. Pettigrew

1/5/1939 – 5/6/2016

On January 5, 1939, Ida Mae Pettigrew was born in Shreveport, LA to Levi and Mercy Edwards.  Ida was the eldest of eight children and her family had several nicknames for her, such as, Mom Mae, Mae and Sug.

Ida met and married Harold Chism, II while in Shreveport and to this union seven children were born.  When this relationship came to end, Ida moved to Omaha where she met and married her husband of forty years, James Pettigrew.  This union brought seven additional step children and was the REAL Brady Bunch.

Ida accepted GOD in her life at a very early age and believed in him and his Glory until he called her home at 2:00 am, Friday, May 6, 2016. She was a dedicated employee to Kellogg’s where she retired after thirty years of employment.

Preceding her in death were both parents Levi and Mercy; husband James; sons, Harold and Leonard; siblings, JC, George, Ruby, and LV.

She leaves to cherish her memory siblings, James, Mary and Elizabeth; sons Jimmy and Levi; step sons Darryl, Jimmy, and Kevin; daughters, Linda, Patricia and Gloria; step daughters Drewshelle, Karen, Lorrie and Rhonda; nineteen grandchildren; twenty four great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild and many other love ones and friends.

-John 14:1-4
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

Visitation Monday 6-8 PM at Ames Chapel; Celebration of Life Service 10:00 AM  Tuesday (5/10/2016) at Roeder Mortuary 4932 Ames Avenue Omaha, Nebraska 68104; Interment Forest Lawn Cemetery at Omaha, Nebraska