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Margery Riggs 

1927-2000 

MIDLAND � Margery Sherar Riggs, a former Snyder school teacher, died Thursday, 
July 13, in Midland. 

Memorial service for Mrs. Riggs, 72, was set for 4 p.m. today in the
 Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity with the Rev. Jeff Fouts officiating. 

Service and burial will be held Wednesday at the Gulf Prairie Presbyterian Church 
and its cemetery at Jones Creek in Brazoria County. 

Born Oct. 12, 1927 in Houston, she was a sixth grade teacher in Snyder 
and moved to Midland in 1954. She moved to London, England in 1972, 
returning to Midland in 1976. 

Mrs. Riggs was a member of the Episcopal Church in Snyder, was a member of the
 Junior League of Midland, Museum of the Southwest and Midland Community Theatre.
 She also was active in the founding of the Trinity Day School. 

Survivors include her husband, Jack Donald Riggs of Midland; 
three daughters, Katherine Grella of Midland, Susan Brown of Fort Worth 
and Bryan Huggins of Kerrville; and seven grandchildren.