Alda Mae Diggs

Marietta Monitor

April 14, 2000, page 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Graveside services for Alda Mae Diggs, 80, of Marietta, were held Saturday, April 8, in Hopping Cemetery, Wayne, with Mr. L.C. Bingham officiating.

Mrs. Diggs was born April 5, 1920 in Wayne, the daughter of Jot and Jesse Hobson Bennett. She died Thursday, April 6, 2000.

She and Lloyd Diggs were married October 9, 1937 in Sulphur. He preceded her in death July 24, 1997.

Mrs. Diggs was a member of the Church of Christ in Marietta and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and a friend to all.

Survivors include her sons and daughter-in-law, Jim Diggs of Marietta and Bob and Peggy Diggs of Marietta; three grand-children; six great-grandchildren; two great-great-grand-children; a brother, Jack Bennett of Purcell; and five sisters, Daisy Ballard and Patricia McGowen, both of Purcell, Sue Toy of Wichita, Kansas, Elmo Helton of Carlsbad, California, and Norma Phyllis Reid of Greenleaf, Indiana.

Burial was in Hopping Cemetery, Wayne, under the direction of Yoakum-Damet Funeral Home, Purcell.