Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Briggs, Priscilla Shelby Williams September 17, 1971
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Virginian-Pilot September 18, 1971
NORFOLK - Mrs. Shelby Williams Briggs, 93, of 7211 Granby St., a welfare worker 
and artist, died Friday afternoon in Mary F. Ballentine Home for the Aged.
A native of Columbia, Tenn., she was a daughter of Joseph Minnick and Mrs. Emily 
Donelson Polk Williams and the widow of George Briggs, who operated a lumber 
business in Norfolk many years.
She was a member of First Church of Christ Scientist.
During the Depression she was active in welfare work in Norfolk. She was an 
amateur artist specializing in flowers, many of which she grew in the garden of 
her former home in Edgewater.
She is survived by two cousins, Mrs. Richard T. Cox of Baltimore and Mrs. James 
Harrison Parker of Norfolk.
The body was taken to H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments.
A funeral service will be held today at 4:30 p.m. in Elmwood Cemetery by Mrs. 
Mary Frances Morrisette, Christian Science reader.


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