Individual Details
Hershel Rinaldo Briggs
(16 Mar 1908 - 28 Dec 1956)
No obituary found in the Oakland Tribune per search by Oakland Public Library, 125 14th St., Oakland, CA 94612, as of December 2005.
Probably from a Northern California newspaper; Lodger Killed in Two-Story Plunge. Herschel Briggs, 40, was killed early today when he fell or jumped from the second floor fire escape of his apartment at 2329 San Pablo Ave., police reported. Briggs was found on the sidewalk below the fire escape shortly before 2 a.m.
Pittsburg Sun, Pittsburg, Kansas, unknown date. Rites in California for Hershel Briggs. Funeral services were held Monday in San Leandro, Calif. for Hershel Briggs, a former resident of Pittsburg and son of Mrs. P. O. Briggs of 105 East Williams, who died Friday, Dec. 28. Briggs was a graduate of Pittsburg high school and the College. He had been living in San Leandro.
Probably from a Northern California newspaper; Lodger Killed in Two-Story Plunge. Herschel Briggs, 40, was killed early today when he fell or jumped from the second floor fire escape of his apartment at 2329 San Pablo Ave., police reported. Briggs was found on the sidewalk below the fire escape shortly before 2 a.m.
Pittsburg Sun, Pittsburg, Kansas, unknown date. Rites in California for Hershel Briggs. Funeral services were held Monday in San Leandro, Calif. for Hershel Briggs, a former resident of Pittsburg and son of Mrs. P. O. Briggs of 105 East Williams, who died Friday, Dec. 28. Briggs was a graduate of Pittsburg high school and the College. He had been living in San Leandro.
Events
Families
Spouse | Marjorie Elizabeth Ham (1909 - 1990) |
Child | Roger Philip Briggs (1939 - ) |
Child | Kathleen "Kathy" Marie Briggs (1942 - ) |
Child | Trevor Haines Briggs (1944 - ) |
Father | Philip Orville Briggs Jr. (1879 - 1955) |
Mother | Elizabeth Ann Reese (1881 - 1967) |
Sibling | Ellsworth Reese Briggs (1909 - 1986) |
Sibling | Glenn Orville Briggs (1913 - 1974) |
Sibling | Robert Lewis Briggs (1923 - 1972) |
Endnotes
1. California Death Index.
2. Marjorie Ham Briggs, Ten Generation List.
3. Marjorie Ham Briggs, Ten Generation List.
4. Unknown, Newspaper clipping of marriage notice (n.p: about Jan. 1933, n.d).
5. California Death Index.
6. Verbal from Kathy Briggs Seronello.