Claude M. Briggs, age 95, of Savanna, Illinois, died Thursday, December 30, 1999, at the Mercy Medical Center, Clinton, Iowa. The funeral service for Claude will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 5, 2000, at the First United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Savanna Township Cemetery. Memorials will be given in Claude's name to the First United Methodist Church.
Claude was born on Friday, April 8, 1904, in Sabula, Iowa, to Fred M. and Effie (Albright) Briggs. He graduated from the Sabula High School with the Class of 1922. Claude married Mildred M. Bolton on December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. Mildred died on May 1, 1997, in Savanna. He and his wife owned and operated the Mi-Jo Shop in Savanna from 1939 to 1951. He then worked for Interstate Power from 1951 to 1963, retiring in 1963. Claude was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Savanna. He was the first President of the Savanna City Hospital and a past member of the Savanna Lions Club and the Savanna Chamber of Commerce.
Claude is survived by one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great-grandchildren. Aaron Hayden, Kelly Hayden, Brett Hancock, Samantha Hancock, Andrew Hayden, Jon Hayden, and Alyson Hayden; and one great-great granddaughter, Baylee Hayden; and a host of Friends. His parents, his wife, and one brother, Archie Briggs, preceded him in death.
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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.
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Noted: the MiJo Shop was located at 411 Main Street, in Savanna, Illinois.
Biography compilation by grandson, Mark Hayden.
Claude was born on Friday, April 8, 1904, in Sabula, Iowa, to Fred M. and Effie (Albright) Briggs. He graduated from the Sabula High School with the Class of 1922. Claude married Mildred M. Bolton on December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. Mildred died on May 1, 1997, in Savanna. He and his wife owned and operated the Mi-Jo Shop in Savanna from 1939 to 1951. He then worked for Interstate Power from 1951 to 1963, retiring in 1963. Claude was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Savanna. He was the first President of the Savanna City Hospital and a past member of the Savanna Lions Club and the Savanna Chamber of Commerce.
Claude is survived by one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great-grandchildren. Aaron Hayden, Kelly Hayden, Brett Hancock, Samantha Hancock, Andrew Hayden, Jon Hayden, and Alyson Hayden; and one great-great granddaughter, Baylee Hayden; and a host of Friends. His parents, his wife, and one brother, Archie Briggs, preceded him in death.
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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.
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Noted: the MiJo Shop was located at 411 Main Street, in Savanna, Illinois.
Biography compilation by grandson, Mark Hayden.
Claude M. Briggs, age 95, of Savanna, Illinois, died Thursday, December 30, 1999, at the Mercy Medical Center, Clinton, Iowa. The funeral service for Claude will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 5, 2000, at the First United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Savanna Township Cemetery. Memorials will be given in Claude's name to the First United Methodist Church.
Claude was born on Friday, April 8, 1904, in Sabula, Iowa, to Fred M. and Effie (Albright) Briggs. He graduated from the Sabula High School with the Class of 1922. Claude married Mildred M. Bolton on December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. Mildred died on May 1, 1997, in Savanna. He and his wife owned and operated the Mi-Jo Shop in Savanna from 1939 to 1951. He then worked for Interstate Power from 1951 to 1963, retiring in 1963. Claude was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Savanna. He was the first President of the Savanna City Hospital and a past member of the Savanna Lions Club and the Savanna Chamber of Commerce.
Claude is survived by one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great-grandchildren. Aaron Hayden, Kelly Hayden, Brett Hancock, Samantha Hancock, Andrew Hayden, Jon Hayden, and Alyson Hayden; and one great-great granddaughter, Baylee Hayden; and a host of Friends. His parents, his wife, and one brother, Archie Briggs, preceded him in death.
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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.
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Noted: the MiJo Shop was located at 411 Main Street, in Savanna, Illinois.
Biography compilation by grandson, Mark Hayden.
Claude was born on Friday, April 8, 1904, in Sabula, Iowa, to Fred M. and Effie (Albright) Briggs. He graduated from the Sabula High School with the Class of 1922. Claude married Mildred M. Bolton on December 25, 1923 in the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. Mildred died on May 1, 1997, in Savanna. He and his wife owned and operated the Mi-Jo Shop in Savanna from 1939 to 1951. He then worked for Interstate Power from 1951 to 1963, retiring in 1963. Claude was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Savanna. He was the first President of the Savanna City Hospital and a past member of the Savanna Lions Club and the Savanna Chamber of Commerce.
Claude is survived by one daughter, Joan (Rod) Hayden of San Juan Capistrano, California; five grandchildren, Rick, Mark, Teri, Scot and Lisa Hayden; seven great-grandchildren. Aaron Hayden, Kelly Hayden, Brett Hancock, Samantha Hancock, Andrew Hayden, Jon Hayden, and Alyson Hayden; and one great-great granddaughter, Baylee Hayden; and a host of Friends. His parents, his wife, and one brother, Archie Briggs, preceded him in death.
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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.
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Noted: the MiJo Shop was located at 411 Main Street, in Savanna, Illinois.
Biography compilation by grandson, Mark Hayden.
