Abstracts of Obits Appearing in the Advocate, Pointe Coupee, La. File submitted by Donald W. Johnson (DW9JOHNSON@aol.com) ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. ********************************************** DREIDGER, EDWIN WILFRID A resident of Brevard, N.C., he died Thursday, Dec. 11, 1997, at his home. FITCH, DOROTHY SHAW "TUTS" Retired after working for Dan Babin Tires and Big River Tires, she died at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 9, 1998, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, as the result of an automobile accident. She was 72, a resident of Baton Rouge and a native of Oak Ridge. Interment in Oak Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery. Survived by a daughter, Karen Anne Fitch, Baton Rouge; four sons and a daughter-in-law, James Michael and Nell Fitch, St. Francisville, Francis J. Fitch Jr., Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, William Dean Fitch and Dennis Lorian Fitch, both of Baton Rouge; a brother and sister-in-law, William A. Shaw and Patricia Shaw, Oak Ridge; and a granddaughter, Jessica Leigh Fitch, Baton Rouge. Preceded in death by husband, Francis J. Fitch Sr.; and a brother, James B. Shaw Jr. She was a member of Parkview Baptist Church.