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Anna Muriel Briggs

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Anna Muriel Briggs

Birth
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
5 Jul 1995 (aged 88)
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA
Burial
Denison, Grayson County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Went to work for Sears Roebuck Dept. Store in Dallas, TX when she was about 19 years old. Later moved to Los Angeles, CA. and worked at the Inglewood Sears store until her retirement in 1970.
1970 moved with her sister Ruby to Spokane, WA. They bought a mobile home and settled in Otis Orchards, WA. Myrt as we called her spent many hours knitting sweaters, stoles or shawls and afghans for all her nieces and nephews and their families. She did this even after her hands became crippled with arthritis. Niece Wanda (Heath) Flory and her husband Ed took Anna's cremated remains to Denison, Texas in October of 1995. She was laid to rest with her mother Mary Sue Bohler-Briggs on Oct. 11, 1995. Cause of Death: Heart Disease.

Went to work for Sears Roebuck Dept. Store in Dallas, TX when she was about 19 years old. Later moved to Los Angeles, CA. and worked at the Inglewood Sears store until her retirement in 1970.
1970 moved with her sister Ruby to Spokane, WA. They bought a mobile home and settled in Otis Orchards, WA. Myrt as we called her spent many hours knitting sweaters, stoles or shawls and afghans for all her nieces and nephews and their families. She did this even after her hands became crippled with arthritis. Niece Wanda (Heath) Flory and her husband Ed took Anna's cremated remains to Denison, Texas in October of 1995. She was laid to rest with her mother Mary Sue Bohler-Briggs on Oct. 11, 1995. Cause of Death: Heart Disease.



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