Thomas Edward Briggs

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Thomas Edward Briggs, 52, of Anchorage, Alaska was born on January 31, 1934 in Durham, Roger Mills county, Oklahoma to Noel and Lois Riley Briggs, and passed away Friday, March 7, 1986 in Fairbanks, Alaska following a heart attack.

Thomas spent his early years in Roger Mills county and attended school at Cheyenne, Strong City and Hammon.

He was an over the road trucker all of his adult life, working for Kodiak Trucking at the time of his death. In all the miles he had driven, he had only one serious accident.

In January 1959, he married Jane Wallace.

He later married Sandra Kirk and they moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1980.

He had been a member of the Teamsters Local 959 since 1979.

He became a member of the Strong City Baptist Church at 12 years of age.

He was preceded in death by his father in 1952; his grandparents, Earl and Eva Briggs; and W. J. and Idell Riley.

Survivors include his wife, Sandy, of the home; two sons, Gary Wayne of Anchorage, Alaska; Steve and wife, Karen of Waco, Texas; one stepdaughter, Christine; one stepson, Troy, both of Anchorage, Alaska; his mother and stepfather, Lois and Vint Thomas of Cheyenne; two sisters, Patricia Collins of Durham; Roxie Hensley of Elk City; two brothers, Jessie of Hobbs, New Mexico; Ronald of Ulysses, Kansas; two stepsisters, Lola Harris of Midwest City, Oklahoma; Peggy King of Stillwater, Oklahoma; one step-brother, Joe Thomas of Melvin, Illinois; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted, Sunday, March 9, 1986, at 4:00 p.m. in Kehl's Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel in Anchorage, Alaska.

Local services were conducted Tuesday, March 11, 1986 at 2:00 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne with Aubrey Cowan and A. L. Martin officiating. Interment followed in the Strong City Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service of Cheyenne.

Serving as pallbearers were Leon Malson, Donnie O'Hari, W.T. Riley, Thoral Shaw, Melvin Summers and David Lee Wilson.

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