| Briggs, Reuel L. 222072 |
| Birth: 04/30/1947 Death: 04/12/1987 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: See Notes (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: 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) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, April 15, 1987, p. 4A: ‘Funeral services for the Rev. Reuel L. Briggs, Rt. 5, Paris, will be conducted at 11 a.m., Friday, April 17, at the Abundant Life Christian Center, 12th Street SE and East Polk Street. Burial will be in the Friendship Methodist Cemetery in Sherman, where graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Bright-Holland Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Mr. Briggs died Monday in an automobile accident. He was born April 30, 1947, in LaCrosse, Wis., a son of the Rev. Earl Rinaldo Briggs and Violet Christian Snider Briggs. He married Sandy Metcalf on June 24, 1966, in National City, Calif. He was the pastor of Abundant Life Christian Center and chairman of the school board of the Abundant Life Christian Academy. Surviving are his wife; His parents, of Desert Shores, Calif.; two daughters, Rachel Briggs and Kari Briggs of the home; one brother, Paul E. Briggs of Oklahoma City, Okla.; and one sister, Ruth S. Daily of Kemp, Okla.’ THE PARIS NEWS-Apr.14,1987: Man killed in wreck on U.S. 82; Reuel L. Briggs, 39, of Rt. 5, Paris, died instantly when his silver and blue van skidded into the westbound lane of U.S. 82 traffic and was struck in a two- vehicle accident Monday before noon. The crash occurred just west of Loop 286 under severe wind and rain conditions, officials said. Briggs' van was broadsided by a pickup driven westbound by Russell Rickman, 21, of Petty. The accident, according to Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Larry Matthews, investigator, occurred when a gust of wind and sudden sheet of rain made driving conditions dangerous. Matthews said the van driver must have lost control. Briggs was traveling east, the trooper said. The accident was first reported to the Paris Police Department about 10:52 a.m. Monday, according to the dispatch record. The two vehicles collided near the Central Freight Lines location, fronting on U.S. Highway 82, about a mile west of Loop 286. Justice of the Peace Fred Nutt was called to the scene of the accident to make the death pronouncement. Rickman, 21, of Petty, was taken to the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was being treated and x-rayed. His condition was listed as stable Monday afternoon. A relative of Briggs, the deceased victim, was driving ahead of him in a black pickup and just missed being a part of the accident, Matthews said. Funeral services for the Rev. Briggs, pastor of the Abundant Life Christian Academy, are pending with Bright-Holland Funeral Home. |