Clyde David Aldridge

Clyde was a devoted husband, the best father, and a beloved grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, brother, and friend.

Clyde served in the United States Naval Reserves. He was a retired Captain with the Louisville Fire Department, where he served for thirty years. Clyde was also a 32nd degree Mason of the Shawnee Lodge, a member of the Scottish Rite, and a fifty-year member of the Kosair Shrine, having also been in their Motor Corps for years. He was a former member of South Park Country Club and the Sebring Golf Club.

He was a remarkable man, who loved his family deeply and sacrificially. He was a tremendous friend, an average golfer, and had a big heart for children. He especially delighted in his grand- and great grandchildren. He ate entirely too much sugar, with black licorice and jellybeans being favorites. While meatloaf and spaghetti were entrees he never tired of, no matter what you placed before him at suppertime, he would claim, “It’s a feast!” He watched Hallmark Christmas movies, even though he said they were all the same, and HGTV, and A LOT of football. In his final years, at any given moment, you could find him watching current season play…be it college football or the NFL or watching reruns of games from the 1970s and 1980s. He really loved the game, and was proud to have played during his high school days at duPont Manual High School. He was funny, and loved to tell a good tale, usually something self-deprecating.

Preceding him in death, was his wife of sixty years, Nancy Kunnecke Aldridge, and their daughter Janet Alane Aldridge; his parents, James B. and Melissa K. Aldridge; his brother, Ronald C. Aldridge; his sisters, Ruth Schafer, Janet French, and Barbara Ronacher.

He is survived by his daughter, Julie Anne Roederer (Rod) of Elizabethtown, Kentucky; grandsons Jackson Roederer of Richmond, Kentucky, Clayton Roederer of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Matthew Roederer and Daniel Roederer (Roxanne) of Clarksville, Tennessee; and his great grandchildren, Presleigh, Owen, Oakley, Bryson, and bonus great granddaughter Grace; his sister, Shirley Lindsay, and a sister-in-law, Mary Ann Aldridge, both of Florida; a brother-in-law, Bob Barnes of Alabama, several nieces, nephews, and friends that he loved and cherished like family.

A memorial will be held in Louisville on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Arch L Heady Funeral Home at Resthaven on Bardstown Road. Visitation will be from 11am-2pm and a funeral service at 2pm.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Kentucky Brotherhood at www.kentuckybrotherhood.org or at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/kentucky-brotherhood-foundation-corporation