The Citizen your username your email Password recovery David W. Ethridge With dignity intact and on his own terms, David W. Ethridge followed the Bethlehem star home to heaven on December 21, 2020 at the age of 66. He passed surrounded by all his “girls,” wife Kathy Hancock Ethridge to whom he was married for 32 years, eldest daughter Christie Ethridge Diez (Jorge), youngest daughter Lexie Ethridge Wray (Chad), and bonus daughter Deneisha Ingram, who cared for him by his side every day. After a years-long battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s, his death was not quick or easy. But even that is a testament to the man he was: stoic and strong and fiercely independent. He baffled even the most experienced hospice nurses.