Individual Details

Joplin Globe, Joplin, Missouri, Tuesday, December 30, 1975, Page 5, Col. 2: Liberal, Mo.---Mrs. Mabel L. Avery, 81, Carl Junction, died at 7:45 a.m. Monday at a Joplin nursing home following a long illness. Mrs. Avery was born Oct. 8, 1894, at Fort Scott, Kan. She was married to Charles Avery, who died in 1935. She was a longtime resident of Liberal before moving to Carl Junction. She was a member of Pleasantview Baptist Church, south of Liberal. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Ralph Overstreet, Liberal route 1, Mrs. Bertha Wyrick, Pittsburg, Kan., and Mrs. Eula Sheppard, Joliet, Ill. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasantview Baptist Church. The Rev. David Wigger will officiate. Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery, south of Liberal, under direction of Lohmeyer-Konantz Funeral Home, Lamar.

Birth	8 Oct 1894	Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas
Marriage	1924	Charles Elsworth Avery
Death	29 Dec 1975	Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri
Burial		Nashville Cemetery, Nashville, Barton Co., Missouri

Spouse

Charles Elsworth Avery (1883 - 1935)

Father	Arthur Lee Briggs (1864 - 1939)
Mother	Ella Simmons (1869 - 1958)
Sibling	Eula Viola Briggs (1888 - 1976)
Sibling	Gertrude Mae Briggs (1889 - 1975)
Sibling	Bertha Beatrice Briggs (1891 - 1986)
Sibling	Arthur Lee Briggs Jr. (1898 - 1944)
Sibling	Margaret Briggs (1900 - 1954)
Sibling	Mary Leona Briggs (1905 - 1970)
Sibling	Sarah Cleona Briggs (1905 - 1984)