Eva Lucille Sadler Briggs

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Eva Lucille Sadler Briggs, 92, was born May 9, 1892 in Gallatin, Missouri to Elijah Boone and Virginia Edna Sadler, and passed from this life Thursday, January 10, 1985 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital of Cheyenne.

She moved with her father, two sisters and one brother to Roger Mills county where they purchased a farm near Durham.

Here she met and married Earl Briggs on July 9, 1908.

She had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne for a number of years.

Preceding Mrs. Briggs in death were her husband; her parents; three sons, Noel, Thomas and Darius; three grandsons; one great grandson; two sisters and one brother.

Survivors include five daughters, Zenobia Riley of Dumas, Texas; Juanita Walker of Corpus Christi, Texas; Wenona Moore of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Nadine David of Amarillo, Texas; and Joan Decker of Woodland, California; four sons: Cyril of Merced, California; Rober of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Loel of San Antonio, Texas; Sherman of Las Cruses, New Mexico; forty five grandchildren; seventy four great grandchildren; twelve great great grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, January 12, 1985 at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne with Jimmy Wilkerson and Aubrey Cowan officiating.

Interment followed in the Strong City Cemetery, Strong City, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with Rose Chapel Funeral Services of Cheyenne in charge of arrangements.

Her grandsons served as pallbearers.

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