MRS. EDWIN BRIGGS
SHREWSBURY - Mrs. Ruth Marie Burgess Briggs, 64, wife of Edwin Jay Briggs, died suddenly Friday morning at the Rutland Hospital.
She was born in West Rutland, Oct. 27, 1898, the daughter of Rollin Benjamin and Dora Helen(Burditt) Burgess.
Besides her husband, she is surved by two dauthers, Mrs. Betty Ruth Pelkey and Mrs. Jane Susan Carter, both of Rutland; three sons, Edward James Briggs of Shrewsbury, Herbert Roy Briggs of Barre, Merrill Patrick Briggs of Pittsford; 11 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Katherine Edith Kingsley of Harford, CT; two brothers, Earle Reuben Burgess of Hartford CT, and Roy Henry Burgess of Proctor and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Olof Johnson, pastor the the Federated Church of Castleton, at the Bernard Funeral Home in Pittsford. Friends may call Saturday at the funeral home between 2 and 4 and 7 and 9 p.m.
MRS. EDWIN BRIGGS
SHREWSBURY - Mrs. Ruth Marie Burgess Briggs, 64, wife of Edwin Jay Briggs, died suddenly Friday morning at the Rutland Hospital.
She was born in West Rutland, Oct. 27, 1898, the daughter of Rollin Benjamin and Dora Helen(Burditt) Burgess.
Besides her husband, she is surved by two dauthers, Mrs. Betty Ruth Pelkey and Mrs. Jane Susan Carter, both of Rutland; three sons, Edward James Briggs of Shrewsbury, Herbert Roy Briggs of Barre, Merrill Patrick Briggs of Pittsford; 11 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Katherine Edith Kingsley of Harford, CT; two brothers, Earle Reuben Burgess of Hartford CT, and Roy Henry Burgess of Proctor and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Olof Johnson, pastor the the Federated Church of Castleton, at the Bernard Funeral Home in Pittsford. Friends may call Saturday at the funeral home between 2 and 4 and 7 and 9 p.m.
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