Greer County, OK - Obits:  Riggs, James L., 1966
Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Submitted by: burke@intplsrv.net  (Robert Burke)
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               James Lonnie Riggs Services Held Here Friday

  Funeral services for James Lonnie Riggs, 73, were held Friday, December
9, (1966) at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel at Johnson Southwest Mortuary with
Rev. J. Allen Anderson officiating.  Interment was in the Brinkman Cemetery.
  He was born March 22, 1893 in Moscow, Fulton County, Kentucky, came to 
Oklahoma around 1910 and lived at Sayre for six years before moving to 
Brinkman.  There he was employed as a ginner until 1941 when he came to 
Mangum.  He was employed by the Mangum Farmers Coop Gin until his retirement.  
He died December 6 at the Lou Len Manor in Mangum.  Riggs was a member of the 
Masonic Lodge 433, Willow.
  Survivors are four grandchildren.  Mrs. Barbara York, Mrs. Joy Metzner,
Mrs. Betty Boeltz and Jimmy Riggs, all of California.  His son, J. L. Riggs,
preceded him in death.
  Pallbearers were Charles Warren, Nathan Moore, Edgar Pruitt, Oriff Kouri,
Homer Fleming and Chat Hogan.
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