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Gilbert E. RIGGS
Enid Morning News
Enid, Garfield Co., OK
Feb. 1983
 
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre


Gilbert E. RIGGS
The funeral for Gilbert E. Riggs, 74, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Henninger-Allen Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Richard N. Duckworth officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Riggs died Sunday in a Beaver Nursing Home. He was born on a farm West of Enid on November 10, 1908, the son of Roy and Mary Elizabeth Riggs. He attended rural schools and later worked several years as an aircraft mechanic for Boeing at Wichita, Kansas. He had also worked for McDonald-Douglas Aircraft Co. in California and at Tulsa. Riggs had lived in Enid for the past several years and had retired from Vance Air Force Base in 1974.

He and Florence Ruth Dawson were married July 31,1964 in Enid. Riggs was a member of the Moose Lodge 1740 in Enid. He is survived by his wife, Florence of Beaver; a brother Marion Riggs, Conway Springs Kansas; and a sister Mrs. Dorothy Taylor, Saratoga, California.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

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