August E. Briggen
Services for August E. Briggen, 329 South Ellis, a retired riverboat chief engineer, will be conducted at 10 Tuesday morning at the Lorberg Funeral Home by the Rev. Bosco Westrich, associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson. Burial will be in Memorial Park.
Mr. Briggen, 58 years old, died Friday afternoon at his home. Cape County Coroner Donald A. Kremer said death was from natural causes. Mr. Briggen had been under a physician's care for a heart condition.
He retired in 1964 from the John I. Hay Co., after 16 years employment on the riverboats. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838.
Mr. Briggen was born in Cape Girardeau Aug. 26, 1910. On May 13, 1943, he married Mrs. Marie Holland of this city at Jackson. She survives.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Glenn Schwack, St. Louis; a brother, Frank Briggen, and a half brother, Harold Followell, both of Cape Girardeau; two half sisters, Mrs. Hazel Laws, St. Louis, and Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.; six step grandchildren and a great-step grandchild.
Southeast Missourian June 16, 1969
Services for August E. Briggen, 329 South Ellis, a retired riverboat chief engineer, will be conducted at 10 Tuesday morning at the Lorberg Funeral Home by the Rev. Bosco Westrich, associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson. Burial will be in Memorial Park.
Mr. Briggen, 58 years old, died Friday afternoon at his home. Cape County Coroner Donald A. Kremer said death was from natural causes. Mr. Briggen had been under a physician's care for a heart condition.
He retired in 1964 from the John I. Hay Co., after 16 years employment on the riverboats. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838.
Mr. Briggen was born in Cape Girardeau Aug. 26, 1910. On May 13, 1943, he married Mrs. Marie Holland of this city at Jackson. She survives.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Glenn Schwack, St. Louis; a brother, Frank Briggen, and a half brother, Harold Followell, both of Cape Girardeau; two half sisters, Mrs. Hazel Laws, St. Louis, and Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.; six step grandchildren and a great-step grandchild.
Southeast Missourian June 16, 1969
August E. Briggen
Services for August E. Briggen, 329 South Ellis, a retired riverboat chief engineer, will be conducted at 10 Tuesday morning at the Lorberg Funeral Home by the Rev. Bosco Westrich, associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson. Burial will be in Memorial Park.
Mr. Briggen, 58 years old, died Friday afternoon at his home. Cape County Coroner Donald A. Kremer said death was from natural causes. Mr. Briggen had been under a physician's care for a heart condition.
He retired in 1964 from the John I. Hay Co., after 16 years employment on the riverboats. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838.
Mr. Briggen was born in Cape Girardeau Aug. 26, 1910. On May 13, 1943, he married Mrs. Marie Holland of this city at Jackson. She survives.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Glenn Schwack, St. Louis; a brother, Frank Briggen, and a half brother, Harold Followell, both of Cape Girardeau; two half sisters, Mrs. Hazel Laws, St. Louis, and Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.; six step grandchildren and a great-step grandchild.
Southeast Missourian June 16, 1969
Services for August E. Briggen, 329 South Ellis, a retired riverboat chief engineer, will be conducted at 10 Tuesday morning at the Lorberg Funeral Home by the Rev. Bosco Westrich, associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson. Burial will be in Memorial Park.
Mr. Briggen, 58 years old, died Friday afternoon at his home. Cape County Coroner Donald A. Kremer said death was from natural causes. Mr. Briggen had been under a physician's care for a heart condition.
He retired in 1964 from the John I. Hay Co., after 16 years employment on the riverboats. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838.
Mr. Briggen was born in Cape Girardeau Aug. 26, 1910. On May 13, 1943, he married Mrs. Marie Holland of this city at Jackson. She survives.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Glenn Schwack, St. Louis; a brother, Frank Briggen, and a half brother, Harold Followell, both of Cape Girardeau; two half sisters, Mrs. Hazel Laws, St. Louis, and Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.; six step grandchildren and a great-step grandchild.
Southeast Missourian June 16, 1969
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