Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Briggs Gladys T 020108 p8
A graveside service will be held here Friday afternoon for longtime Patterson resident Gladys Thelma Briggs.   She died
Nov. 17 in Ordway, Colorado .  She was 91.  She was born in Ordway and moved here with her family in the late 1040s
when her husband came to work on the construction of the Delta-Mendota Canal.  When the canal was completed, the
family stayed when he went to work in construction foe the late John Delphia.  She worked in the late Hazel Cronin's Del
Puerto Style Shop for a few years and was an avid bridge player.  She was living in El Solyo Village when she returned to
Ordway for a visit some two years ago. While there she had a stroke and did not return to Patterson.  The service will be
held Friday at 2 p.m. at Oattersin District Cemetery.  Hillview Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.  Survivors
include a son, Robert "Bob" Briggs of Colorado; seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-
grandchild; two brothers and a sister, Hugh and Paul McDonald and Pearl Torgler, all of Colorado.  She was precede in
death by her husband, James Briggs, and a son, James Briggs Jr.