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From the Joliet Herald News, Monday, January 3, 1944: ARTHUR BRIGGS, 45, DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS. Arthur Lee Briggs, 45 years old, of Na-Au-Say township, a hoisting engineer at the Seneca Shipyards, died yesterday in Silver Cross Hospital following a lengthy illness. A native of Ft. Scott, Kansas he has resided near Minooka for several years during which time he was employed at the munitions plant here. Recently he and his family moved to Na-Au-Say township. Surviving are the widow, Jessie; six daughters, Mrs. Fred Rolando of Joliet; Geneva, Betty, Eleanor, Margery and Geraldine: four sons, Melvin with the Coast Guard, Merle, Billie and Arthur Lee III: Also two grandchildren and his mother, Mrs. Ella Briggs of Plainfield, and seven sisters, Mrs. E. E. Shepherd of Plainfield; Mrs. Gertrude McClure and Mrs. Bertha Wyrick of Chicago; Mrs. Mabel Avery of Plainfield; Mrs. Margaret Fulkerson of Liberal, Mo.; Mrs. Cleona Overstreet of El Rancho, Calif., and Leona Lane of Long Beach, Calif., and five nephews. The funeral will be held from the Luce funeral home at Plainfield Wednesday afternoon to the Baptist church at 2 o'clock. The Rev. A. G. Annette will officiate. Burial will be in the Plainfield cemetery.

Birth	1 Apr 1898	Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Kansas
Marriage	1919	Jessie Ruth Pennington
Residence	1930	Nashville, Barton Co., Missouri
Death	1944
Death	2 Jan 1944	Joliet, Will Co., Illinois
Burial		Plainfield Township Cemetery, Plainfield, Will Co., Illinois

Spouse	Jessie Ruth Pennington (1899 - 1983)
Child	Geraldine Briggs ( - )
Child	Lola May Briggs (1920 - 2001)
Child	Robert Melvin Briggs (1921 - 2013)
Child	Geneva Bernice Briggs (1924 - 1994)
Child	Betty L Briggs (1927 - )
Child	Eleanor Briggs (1928 - )
Child	Marjorie "Margory" L Briggs (1931 - 2018)
Child	Merle Briggs (1935 - )
Child	Billie Dean "Bill" Briggs (1935 - 1995)
Child	Arthur L Briggs (1940 - )

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	Mabel Lee Briggs (1894 - 1975)
Sibling	Margaret Briggs (1900 - 1954)
Sibling	Mary Leona Briggs (1905 - 1970)
Sibling	Sarah Cleona Briggs (1905 - 1984)