Greer County, OK - Deaths:  Riggs, J. L., 1966
Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Submitted by:  burke@intplsrv.net  (Robert Burke)
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           J. L. Riggs Rites to be Held Here Friday Afternoon
                                  (1966)

  James Lonnie "Shorty" Riggs, 74, died December 6 at Lou Len Manor.  Funeral
services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in Memorial Chapel at Johnson Southwest
Mortuary with Rev. J. Allen Anderson officiating.  Interment will be in the
Brinkman Cemetery.
  He was born in March of 1892 in Tennessee and came to Oklahoma in 1910,
living for a time in Sayre and in 1918 moved to Brinkman, where he worked
as a ginner.  Fifteen years ago he came to Mangum where he was employed at
the Mangum Farmers Coop Gin and later by the police department and as a
court house custodian.  He was a member of the Willow Masonic Lodge.
  He has no immediate survivors, one son, J. L. Riggs, jr. died in 1965
in California.
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Note:  Lonnie Riggs was the son of John H. and Mary Gore Riggs.  He was born
in Moscow, Fulton County, Kentucky, orphaned when young and raised by his 
paternal grandparents:  William George and Sarah Eveline Jenkins Riggs, who 
lived in Decatur and Benton Counties, Tennessee.
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