Ridge Alexander Read, 19, of Rossville died Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia.
He was born Nov. 6, 1990, in Ottawa, to Randy D. and Wendy L. Baker Read. He lived the first three years of his life in rural Princeton and then moved to Wamego. He had lived in the Rossville community since 1999.
He graduated from Rossville High School in 2009. He was attending Cloud County Community College at Concordia majoring in wind energy technology. While in high school, he was a member of FFA, the golf team and band and pep-band where he was a drummer.
Survivors include his mother Wendy Read, Rossville; his father, Randy Read, Rossville; a sister, Morgan L.M. Read, Rossville; grandparents, Pamela and Gary Baker, Gas, Debby Gilliam, Topeka, and Kenny and Portia Read, Richmond; great-grandparents, Leona and Adam Appelhanz, Topeka; and his girlfriend, Cortney Holliday, Topeka.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Heritage Hall, One Expocentre Dr., Topeka. Interment will be in Penwell-Gable Cemetery, Topeka.
He will lie in state and the family will receive friends at Rossville United Methodist Church, 411 Pearl St., from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday.
Memorial contributions to Ridge A. Read Memorial Fund may be sent in care of Piper Funeral Home, 714 Maple, St. Marys, KS 66536. Online condolences may be sent to piperfuneralhome.com.
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