Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Briggs, James A., 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JAMES AARON BRIGGS James Aaron Briggs, 80, died this morning (Monday) in the local hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the I.O.Hill Funeral Home in Suffolk with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Survivors include a son, J. Floyd Briggs of Franklin and a daughter, Mrs. Elsie B. Luke of Suffolk; two grandchildren, J.F. Briggs Jr., of Franklin and Beverly Jean Luke of Suffolk; and a great-granddaughter of Franklin. ****************************************************************************** JAMES AARON BRIGGS James Aaron (Daddy) Briggs, 80, died Monday at 4 a.m. at Raiford Memorial Hospital after a week’s illness. A native of Gates County, N.C., he was the son of the late William Allen and Mrs. Cornelia Hobbs Briggs. He was the widow of Mrs. Pattie Howell Briggs and a member of Franklin Baptist Church. A resident of Suffolk for 25 years, he lived in Franklin for 19 years. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Maurice Luke of Suffolk; a son, J. Floyd Briggs of Franklin; two sisters, Mrs. W. M. Blanchard and Mrs. V.D. Hollowell of Suffolk; two brothers, G.C. Briggs of Suffolk and Allen Briggs of Hobbsville, N.C.; two grandchildren, James Floyd Briggs Jr. of Franklin and Beverly Jean Luke of Suffolk and one great-grandchildren, Nancy Garrell Briggs of Franklin. A funeral service was conducted Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in I.O Hill Funeral Home in Suffolk by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist Church and the Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, pastor of Franklin Christian Church. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. Pallbearers were Dr. Darden W. Jones, Ruel T. Blythe, Felton Johnson, William T. Jones, O.M. Blanchard, J.C. Harry, Jr., J.J. Felton and B.M. Scott. James Aaron BRIGGS, of Suffolk, formerly of Franklin, Gates Co., NC native, d. 30 Jan 1961, Franklin, age 80, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block U, Plot 17), Suffolk, 31 Jan 1961, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 30, 1961, p. 1; "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 2, 1961, Section 1, p. 3 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620j4ob.txt