Margaret Marie Riggs

© Marietta Monitor

May 4, 2001

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Margaret Marie Kemp Riggs, 86, of Marietta, were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, at Edgewood Church of God in Edgewood, Texas, with the Rev. Kenneth Adams delivering the message, the Rev. John T. Allen reading the eulogy, and the Rev. Cecil Westervelt reading the obituary.

Mrs. Riggs was born February 24, 1915, at Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Alfred Ray and Lucille Kemp. She died Saturday, April 28, 2001, at Macomb, in the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Judi Riggs, with whom she had been living for the past three months.

Mrs. Riggs had previously made her home in the Marietta & Bomar area for 27 years. She and Lloyd Orville "Bud" Riggs were married October 26, 1934, and he preceded her in death on January 28, 1963. A graduate of Kemp High School in Kemp, Texas, Mrs. Riggs was a homemaker and a retired floral designer. During World War II she was a riveter in a bomb factory, but most of her life she was a devoted homemaker, faithful wife and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Mrs. Riggs was a charter member of the Love County Historical Society and the Busy Bees Group of the Love County Extension Homemakers Council. She also enjoyed genealogy, flowers and books. Mrs. Riggs was a faithful Christian and member of the Church of God for over 50 years. Since 1986 she had been a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, most recently the Lighthouse Evangelistic Ministries in Marietta.

Survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Judi Riggs of Macomb, Ray and Jeanette Riggs of Lexington, and Bill and LaDaria Riggs of Marietta; a daughter and son-in-law, Carole and Warren Monday of Marietta; two sisters, Pauline Clevenger of Edgewood and Dorothy Allen of Dallas; 12 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Riggs was also preceded in death by her father in 1948; her mother in 1989; and a great-granddaughter, Randi Denise Monday.

Pallbearers were grandsons, James Monday, Dennis Monday, Jeremy Riggs, Kirk Riggs, Cory Riggs, Rick Riggs, Carl Boston and Ronnie Shaw. Honorary Pallbearers were Matthew Riggs, Joshua Boston, Danny Bacon, Julio DeLeon, C.J. Boston, Justin Riggs, Bennett Monday and Anthony Monday.

Interment was in Small Cemetery, Edgewood, under the direction of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home, Marietta.

The family has requested that memorials be made to The Gideon Society, c/o Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home.