Mildred M. "Mid" Briggs, age 95, of Savanna, Illinois, died Thursday, May 1, 1997 at her home in Savanna. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 5, 1997 at the First United Methodist Church in Savanna with Reverend Bill Landis and Pastor Michael Pater officiating. Burial will be in the Savanna Township Cemetery. Memorials may be made in Mildred's name to the First United Methodist Church.
Mid was born Sunday, December 29, 1901, in Bolton, Illinois, to Francis and Laura (Fulrath) Bolton. She married Claude M. Briggs December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Claude and Mildred were married for seventy-three years.
Mid attended the Savanna schools and graduated from the Savanna High School. After high school, Mid worked for Charles Hathaway Drug Store and for Lambert's Grocery Store. For ten years, she worked as a clerk for the Burlington Railroad. Mid worked part time in the Mi-Jo Apparel Shop which was operated by the family.
Mid was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed many crafts and took special pleasure in recycling greeting cards.
Mid leaves behind her husband, Claude; one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great grandchildren, Aaron, Kelly, Andrew, Jon and Alyson Hayden and Brett and Samantha Hancock; and a host of friends.
Mid is preceded in death by one brother, Donald Bolton.
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SABULA PEOPLE IN CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS...Miss Viola Kempter Becomes Wife of S.D. Cotter. Claude Briggs Weds Miss Mildred Bolton, of Savanna...
Two holiday week weddings of much interest to Sabula people were those of Stewart Day Cotter, a young man who is now a member of the faculty at Elmhurst, Illinois High School, to Miss Viola Kempter, of this city and Claude Briggs, also of Sabula but employed in the Williams dry goods store, in Savanna, to Miss Mildred Bolton, of the latter city.
The Bolton-Briggs wedding took place on Christmas day at the "little brown church in the vale", near Nashua, Iowa, and was quite a surprise to the many friends of the young couple, although it was felt by them that the happy event would take place within the near future. The bride is one of Savanna's most winsome and popular young ladies and has been employed at clerical work in a railroad office there. She has been a frequent visitor in Sabula and has made a host of friends here. Claude is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Briggs, of this city, and after graduation from the local high school in 1922 took a course in window decorating and card writing and now holds a responsible position with the I.S. Williams dry goods company in Savanna. He is a clean-cut young fellow with the happy faculty of making friends where ever he goes and no doubt has a bright future in his chosen work.
Biography compilation constructed by grandson Mark Hayden,
Mid was born Sunday, December 29, 1901, in Bolton, Illinois, to Francis and Laura (Fulrath) Bolton. She married Claude M. Briggs December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Claude and Mildred were married for seventy-three years.
Mid attended the Savanna schools and graduated from the Savanna High School. After high school, Mid worked for Charles Hathaway Drug Store and for Lambert's Grocery Store. For ten years, she worked as a clerk for the Burlington Railroad. Mid worked part time in the Mi-Jo Apparel Shop which was operated by the family.
Mid was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed many crafts and took special pleasure in recycling greeting cards.
Mid leaves behind her husband, Claude; one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great grandchildren, Aaron, Kelly, Andrew, Jon and Alyson Hayden and Brett and Samantha Hancock; and a host of friends.
Mid is preceded in death by one brother, Donald Bolton.
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SABULA PEOPLE IN CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS...Miss Viola Kempter Becomes Wife of S.D. Cotter. Claude Briggs Weds Miss Mildred Bolton, of Savanna...
Two holiday week weddings of much interest to Sabula people were those of Stewart Day Cotter, a young man who is now a member of the faculty at Elmhurst, Illinois High School, to Miss Viola Kempter, of this city and Claude Briggs, also of Sabula but employed in the Williams dry goods store, in Savanna, to Miss Mildred Bolton, of the latter city.
The Bolton-Briggs wedding took place on Christmas day at the "little brown church in the vale", near Nashua, Iowa, and was quite a surprise to the many friends of the young couple, although it was felt by them that the happy event would take place within the near future. The bride is one of Savanna's most winsome and popular young ladies and has been employed at clerical work in a railroad office there. She has been a frequent visitor in Sabula and has made a host of friends here. Claude is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Briggs, of this city, and after graduation from the local high school in 1922 took a course in window decorating and card writing and now holds a responsible position with the I.S. Williams dry goods company in Savanna. He is a clean-cut young fellow with the happy faculty of making friends where ever he goes and no doubt has a bright future in his chosen work.
Biography compilation constructed by grandson Mark Hayden,
Mildred M. "Mid" Briggs, age 95, of Savanna, Illinois, died Thursday, May 1, 1997 at her home in Savanna. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 5, 1997 at the First United Methodist Church in Savanna with Reverend Bill Landis and Pastor Michael Pater officiating. Burial will be in the Savanna Township Cemetery. Memorials may be made in Mildred's name to the First United Methodist Church.
Mid was born Sunday, December 29, 1901, in Bolton, Illinois, to Francis and Laura (Fulrath) Bolton. She married Claude M. Briggs December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Claude and Mildred were married for seventy-three years.
Mid attended the Savanna schools and graduated from the Savanna High School. After high school, Mid worked for Charles Hathaway Drug Store and for Lambert's Grocery Store. For ten years, she worked as a clerk for the Burlington Railroad. Mid worked part time in the Mi-Jo Apparel Shop which was operated by the family.
Mid was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed many crafts and took special pleasure in recycling greeting cards.
Mid leaves behind her husband, Claude; one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great grandchildren, Aaron, Kelly, Andrew, Jon and Alyson Hayden and Brett and Samantha Hancock; and a host of friends.
Mid is preceded in death by one brother, Donald Bolton.
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SABULA PEOPLE IN CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS...Miss Viola Kempter Becomes Wife of S.D. Cotter. Claude Briggs Weds Miss Mildred Bolton, of Savanna...
Two holiday week weddings of much interest to Sabula people were those of Stewart Day Cotter, a young man who is now a member of the faculty at Elmhurst, Illinois High School, to Miss Viola Kempter, of this city and Claude Briggs, also of Sabula but employed in the Williams dry goods store, in Savanna, to Miss Mildred Bolton, of the latter city.
The Bolton-Briggs wedding took place on Christmas day at the "little brown church in the vale", near Nashua, Iowa, and was quite a surprise to the many friends of the young couple, although it was felt by them that the happy event would take place within the near future. The bride is one of Savanna's most winsome and popular young ladies and has been employed at clerical work in a railroad office there. She has been a frequent visitor in Sabula and has made a host of friends here. Claude is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Briggs, of this city, and after graduation from the local high school in 1922 took a course in window decorating and card writing and now holds a responsible position with the I.S. Williams dry goods company in Savanna. He is a clean-cut young fellow with the happy faculty of making friends where ever he goes and no doubt has a bright future in his chosen work.
Biography compilation constructed by grandson Mark Hayden,
Mid was born Sunday, December 29, 1901, in Bolton, Illinois, to Francis and Laura (Fulrath) Bolton. She married Claude M. Briggs December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Claude and Mildred were married for seventy-three years.
Mid attended the Savanna schools and graduated from the Savanna High School. After high school, Mid worked for Charles Hathaway Drug Store and for Lambert's Grocery Store. For ten years, she worked as a clerk for the Burlington Railroad. Mid worked part time in the Mi-Jo Apparel Shop which was operated by the family.
Mid was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed many crafts and took special pleasure in recycling greeting cards.
Mid leaves behind her husband, Claude; one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great grandchildren, Aaron, Kelly, Andrew, Jon and Alyson Hayden and Brett and Samantha Hancock; and a host of friends.
Mid is preceded in death by one brother, Donald Bolton.
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SABULA PEOPLE IN CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS...Miss Viola Kempter Becomes Wife of S.D. Cotter. Claude Briggs Weds Miss Mildred Bolton, of Savanna...
Two holiday week weddings of much interest to Sabula people were those of Stewart Day Cotter, a young man who is now a member of the faculty at Elmhurst, Illinois High School, to Miss Viola Kempter, of this city and Claude Briggs, also of Sabula but employed in the Williams dry goods store, in Savanna, to Miss Mildred Bolton, of the latter city.
The Bolton-Briggs wedding took place on Christmas day at the "little brown church in the vale", near Nashua, Iowa, and was quite a surprise to the many friends of the young couple, although it was felt by them that the happy event would take place within the near future. The bride is one of Savanna's most winsome and popular young ladies and has been employed at clerical work in a railroad office there. She has been a frequent visitor in Sabula and has made a host of friends here. Claude is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Briggs, of this city, and after graduation from the local high school in 1922 took a course in window decorating and card writing and now holds a responsible position with the I.S. Williams dry goods company in Savanna. He is a clean-cut young fellow with the happy faculty of making friends where ever he goes and no doubt has a bright future in his chosen work.
Biography compilation constructed by grandson Mark Hayden,
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