'PAT' BIGGERS, 57, FIRST DRAFTEE OF TARRANT IN KOREAN WAR, DIES
By ELSTON BROOKS, Star-Telegram Writer
Robert B. "Pat" Biggers, 57, a Fort Worth business executive who in 1950 was publicized as Tarrant County's first draftee in the Korean War, died early Thursday after suffering a heart attack at home.
Funeral will be at 2p.m. Friday at Robertson Meuller Harper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Biggers was district manager of Chrysler Credit Corp., a company he had been affiliated with for 20 years.
In September of 1950, he was pictured on the front page of the Star-Telegram opening is draft notice. In September of 1952, the picture was duplicated on the front page, alongside a picture of Biggers as the first returnee from the war.
He became a decorated sergeant first class in Korea, serving as a platoon sergeant in combat.
Biggers, a graduate of Paschal High School, attended Texas Wesleyan College after coming out of the Army.
His friends knew him as a man with a ready wit and one who was quick with good-natured needling.
He was a member of Ridglea Country Club and was an avid golfer.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Biggers; two daughters, Moiri Brown and Patti Day; and one grandchild, all of Fort Worth.
-As published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Friday Morning, February 14, 1986.
By ELSTON BROOKS, Star-Telegram Writer
Robert B. "Pat" Biggers, 57, a Fort Worth business executive who in 1950 was publicized as Tarrant County's first draftee in the Korean War, died early Thursday after suffering a heart attack at home.
Funeral will be at 2p.m. Friday at Robertson Meuller Harper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Biggers was district manager of Chrysler Credit Corp., a company he had been affiliated with for 20 years.
In September of 1950, he was pictured on the front page of the Star-Telegram opening is draft notice. In September of 1952, the picture was duplicated on the front page, alongside a picture of Biggers as the first returnee from the war.
He became a decorated sergeant first class in Korea, serving as a platoon sergeant in combat.
Biggers, a graduate of Paschal High School, attended Texas Wesleyan College after coming out of the Army.
His friends knew him as a man with a ready wit and one who was quick with good-natured needling.
He was a member of Ridglea Country Club and was an avid golfer.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Biggers; two daughters, Moiri Brown and Patti Day; and one grandchild, all of Fort Worth.
-As published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Friday Morning, February 14, 1986.
'PAT' BIGGERS, 57, FIRST DRAFTEE OF TARRANT IN KOREAN WAR, DIES
By ELSTON BROOKS, Star-Telegram Writer
Robert B. "Pat" Biggers, 57, a Fort Worth business executive who in 1950 was publicized as Tarrant County's first draftee in the Korean War, died early Thursday after suffering a heart attack at home.
Funeral will be at 2p.m. Friday at Robertson Meuller Harper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Biggers was district manager of Chrysler Credit Corp., a company he had been affiliated with for 20 years.
In September of 1950, he was pictured on the front page of the Star-Telegram opening is draft notice. In September of 1952, the picture was duplicated on the front page, alongside a picture of Biggers as the first returnee from the war.
He became a decorated sergeant first class in Korea, serving as a platoon sergeant in combat.
Biggers, a graduate of Paschal High School, attended Texas Wesleyan College after coming out of the Army.
His friends knew him as a man with a ready wit and one who was quick with good-natured needling.
He was a member of Ridglea Country Club and was an avid golfer.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Biggers; two daughters, Moiri Brown and Patti Day; and one grandchild, all of Fort Worth.
-As published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Friday Morning, February 14, 1986.
By ELSTON BROOKS, Star-Telegram Writer
Robert B. "Pat" Biggers, 57, a Fort Worth business executive who in 1950 was publicized as Tarrant County's first draftee in the Korean War, died early Thursday after suffering a heart attack at home.
Funeral will be at 2p.m. Friday at Robertson Meuller Harper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Biggers was district manager of Chrysler Credit Corp., a company he had been affiliated with for 20 years.
In September of 1950, he was pictured on the front page of the Star-Telegram opening is draft notice. In September of 1952, the picture was duplicated on the front page, alongside a picture of Biggers as the first returnee from the war.
He became a decorated sergeant first class in Korea, serving as a platoon sergeant in combat.
Biggers, a graduate of Paschal High School, attended Texas Wesleyan College after coming out of the Army.
His friends knew him as a man with a ready wit and one who was quick with good-natured needling.
He was a member of Ridglea Country Club and was an avid golfer.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Biggers; two daughters, Moiri Brown and Patti Day; and one grandchild, all of Fort Worth.
-As published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Friday Morning, February 14, 1986.
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