Published: October 28, 2009 10:23 am      

10-28-09 obituaries

DR. LLOYD BRIGGS

ADA — Services for Dr. Lloyd Delano Briggs, 75, Ada, are 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Ada, Dr. George Warren will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Dr. Briggs died Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at his home. He was born Dec. 21, 1933, near Center to Marvin Utah and Beulah Grace McKinley Briggs.

He attended Center, Bebee and Wilson elementary schools and graduated from Vanoss High School. He served in the U.S. Army from July 9, 1953, to June 3, 1955. He was trained and assigned as a helicopter mechanic, serving in Korea and Japan as a department supervisor in a helicopter overhaul depot. He attended Oklahoma State University and received an Associate Degree in Electronics in 1957, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics in 1961, a Master of Science Degree in Technical Education in 1965, and his Doctorate Degree in Higher Education in 1971.

Dr. Briggs was an electronics technician at Sandia Corporation, a research and development laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., from 1957-1958. From 1961 until 1963, he taught electronics at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City, from 1963 until 1965, was assistant professor and head of electronics department at the OSU branch campus in Oklahoma City and from 1965 until 1966, served as the assistant state supervisor of technical education with the State Department of Vocational Technical Education.

In 1966 until 1968, he was field director of Oklahoma State University/Ford Foundation funded project in Brazil establishing post-secondary technical education throughout the country. From 1968-1970, he was assistant professor of technical education in the School of Occupational and Adult Education at OSU. From 1970-1972, served as the chief of career education personnel development at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and from 1972-1980, was the professor and director of the School of Occupational and Adult Education at Oklahoma State University. From 1980 until 1996, he was the principal education specialist with The World Bank in Washington, D.C.

During his professional career, Dr. Briggs served on regional and national advisory committees and in several professional organizations. Following his retirement and returning to the Ada area, he assumed leadership positions with Pontotoc County Retired Educators, Vanoss Education Enrichment Foundation, First United Methodist Church, and Ada Lions Club.

He married Mary Ann Griffith on June 14, 1958, in Ada.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Briggs, of the home; a daughter, Necia Smith and her husband Scott, Jenks; a son, Les Briggs and his wife Patrice, Dale City, Va.; his mother, Beulah Briggs, Ada; three brothers, James Briggs, Ada, Bill Briggs and wife Glenda, Ada, and Howard Briggs and wife Juanita, Stratford; one sister, Pat Brown and husband Robert, Pickett; three grandsons, Alan Josiah Briggs, Jason Alexander Briggs, and Nathaniel Lewis Briggs, all of Dale City, Va.; a granddaughter, Madelyn Joy Smith, Jenks; and a brother-in-law, Joe Griffith and wife Shirley, Georgetown, Texas.

He was preceded in death by his father, Marvin Briggs in February 1992; an infant son, Kendall Lloyd Briggs on April 3, 1962; and a sister-in-law, Marzell Briggs in December, 2005.

Bearers will be Billy Rice, Floyd Gurley, Neal Beasley, Jim Stevens, Jack Rahm, and Buddy Watkins. Honorary bearers will be Fred Bowerman, Elvin Jaquess, Jim Kirby, Jim Laxton, Jack Martin, George Myrick, Tom Boatwright, members of the Fellowship Sunday School Class of the First United Methodist Church, and members of the Ada Lions Club.

The family says those who wish may make memorials to the charity of their choice.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada



BETTY READNOUR

WYNNEWOOD — Services for Betty Jean Readnour, 81, are 2 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Wynnewood. She died Oct. 26, 2009.

DeArman Funeral Home, Wynnewood



PAULINE COVINGTON

WYNNEWOOD — Services for Pauline Covington, 90, are 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at First Baptist Church in Wynnewood. She died Oct. 27, 2009.

DeArman Funeral Home, Wynnewood



WILLIS MAXWELL

MADILL — Services for Willis "Don" Maxwell, 76, Kingston, are 10 a.m. Thursday at Brown's Funeral Service Chapel in Madill. Burial follows at Kingston Cemetery.

Brown's Funeral Service, Madill