Individual Details
Jack David Briles
(June 6, 1930 - March 22, 2005)
"As per Worthie Elwood Briles during a phone conversation with his daugh ter Susan Marie Briles Kniebes on January 27, 2003, Jack was born on th e Kennedale Farm. According to Jack's brothers Elwood and Con Briles, t he Kennedale farm was about 8 miles farther east than the family's earl ier home in Glendarden. Elwood and Con describe the Glengarden area as b eing in the southern part of Fort Worth and south of the old Masonic Ho me, which was an orphanage. For more information on that farm, see the " Notes" for Worthie Elwood Briles.
[On a current (2005) Texas map, Kennedale is south of Interstate Highwa y 20, south of Lake Arlington, south of the east side of Fort Worth, an d southwest of Arlington.]
Jack entered in National Guard during the Korean War and remained in it f or a number of years after the war was over. Susan Marie Briles Kniebe s and her brother David Elwood Briles recall playing "army" with a numb er of "National Guard leftovers" that Uncle Jack provided, including he lmets, canteens, and trenching tools, which they used to dig "fox holes " in the woods behind their house on Marsteller in College Station, Tex as.
Most of Jack's working life was spent as a butcher, including being in c harge of the butcher-shop portion of a number of large supermarkets, in cluding the Worth Food Market and Piggly Wiggly.
Both before and after he and his wife Jean retired, they spent many enj oyable days and weeks camping with their various recreational vehicles.
The Social Security Death Index agrees with Jack's birth date given abo ve; however, it gives his death date as 21 March 2005. His SS Card # w as 466-34-6767 and was issued in Texas."
(Received from George W. Durman, germannaresearch@comcast.net, 2007.)
[On a current (2005) Texas map, Kennedale is south of Interstate Highwa y 20, south of Lake Arlington, south of the east side of Fort Worth, an d southwest of Arlington.]
Jack entered in National Guard during the Korean War and remained in it f or a number of years after the war was over. Susan Marie Briles Kniebe s and her brother David Elwood Briles recall playing "army" with a numb er of "National Guard leftovers" that Uncle Jack provided, including he lmets, canteens, and trenching tools, which they used to dig "fox holes " in the woods behind their house on Marsteller in College Station, Tex as.
Most of Jack's working life was spent as a butcher, including being in c harge of the butcher-shop portion of a number of large supermarkets, in cluding the Worth Food Market and Piggly Wiggly.
Both before and after he and his wife Jean retired, they spent many enj oyable days and weeks camping with their various recreational vehicles.
The Social Security Death Index agrees with Jack's birth date given abo ve; however, it gives his death date as 21 March 2005. His SS Card # w as 466-34-6767 and was issued in Texas."
(Received from George W. Durman, germannaresearch@comcast.net, 2007.)
Events
| Birth | June 6, 1930 | Tarrant County, Texas | |||
| Death | March 22, 2005 | Granbury, Hood County, Texas | |||
| Burial | March 25, 2005 | Holly Hills Memorial Park, Granbury, Hood County, Texas | |||
| Marriage | Jean Anz |
Families
| Spouse | Jean Anz ( - ) |
| Father | Worthie Harwood "Jack" Briles (1894 - 1979) |
| Mother | Leona Hays Connally (1896 - 1980) |
| Sibling | Worthie Elwood Briles (1918 - ) |
| Sibling | Connally "Con" Oran Briles (1919 - ) |
| Sibling | Bonnie Belle Briles (1922 - 2014) |
| Sibling | Van Gordon Briles (1926 - 1990) |
| Sibling | Jeanie Briles ( - ) |