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- Rome NY Daily Sentinel - 6/3/1965
Charles H. Briggs, 71, RD 5,
Tannery Rd., died Wednesday at
his home after an illness of six
months.
Mr. Briggs, who had lived in
Rome past 25 years, retired in
1957 from Rome Division of Revere.
He was born in Boonville on
Feb. 12, 1894, son of Benjamin
and Fannie Bates Briggs, and attended
schools there. He married
Pearl Carpenter on June 10, 1920,
in Boonville. She died several
years ago.
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On Aug. 20, 1954, at Star Lake,
he married Mary Maude Come.
She died Nov. 21, 1963.
Mr. Briggs, who had lived at
Saranac Lake and Brushton prior
to coming to Rome, was an Army
veteran of World War I and was
of the Methodist faith.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs.
William (Helen) Lehr, Watertown,
and Mrs. Dorothy Reed, Boonville;
a sister, Mrs. Erwin (Flora)
Johnson, and a brother, Irving L.
Briggs, both of Rome, and two
grandchildren.
Services Saturday
Funeral services will be at 11
Saturday at the Martin J. Nunn
Funeral Home with the Rev. Edwin
E. Macumber^ pastor of Wes-
leyan Methodist Church, officiat-
ing, and interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Stokes.
Friends may call at the funeral
home from 7 to 9 tonight and
Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.
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