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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, March 17, 1961, p. 4: “PERSONALS. L. O. Briggle, 1626 W. Austin, is a patient in Veteran’s Hospital in Dallas. ...”

THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, March 22, 1961, p. 2: “L. 0. Briggle. Leslie 0. Briggle, 1626 W. Austin, ill at home four or five weeks, died there Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. He was a retired city employee, born in Lamar County, February 10, 1891, son of the late Albert and Ella (Howie) Briggle. Service will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Gene Roden & Sons Chapel and interment made in Meadowbrook Gardens. He leaves his wife, the former Miss Nellie Dickinson; a daughter, Miss Jean Briggle, Paris, and his wife’s sister and brother, whom the Briggles reared: Mrs. Mabel Hurd, Navasota and John Dickinson, Paris. A World War I veteran, he was a member of Calvary Methodist Church.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Leslie O Briggle
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 Mar 1961
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 10 Feb 1891
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Albert Briggle
Mother’s Name: Ella Howie
Was Deceased Ever In U. S. Armed Forces; if yes, WWI
Certificate Number: 16628
GS Film number: 2116711
Digital Folder Number: 005145516
Image Number: 03236
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3HQ-PKY : 13 March 2018), Ella Howie in entry for Leslie O Briggle, 21 Mar 1961; citing certificate number 16628, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,711.

Lamar County, TX Marriage Records: Lesley O. Briggle married Nellie M. Dickson 20 Oct 1922.

From the record journal of Meadowbrook Cemetery: died in Paris, TX.