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Mattie Leona “Sis” <I>Biggs</I> West

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Mattie Leona “Sis” Biggs West

Birth
McNeil, Caldwell County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Nov 1938 (aged 28)
Luling, Caldwell County, Texas, USA
Burial
McNeil, Caldwell County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
K-11
Memorial ID
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Mattie Leona "Sis" was the daughter of Ernest Wiseman "Wisie" and Lillie Alice (Crowell) Biggs.
Her siblings were: William Jennings "Willie J.' Biggs, John Vernon "Pete" Biggs, Alton Francis "Doc" Biggs, Sarah Bernice "Dollie" (Biggs)[Hinds] McCampbell, Olga Dorothy "Dick" (Biggs) Huff, and Alta May "Dottie" (Biggs) Mace.
Leona married Charles Henry West in San Antonio, Texas on Dec. 24, 1932. Together they had three children.
At the time of her death the boys were 2 yrs. 9 mos., 4 yrs.,and their daughter, Barbara Ann "Bobbie", was only seventeen months old.
The two sons were rised by their father and Bobbie was raised by Leona's parents.
Leona had been living in Port Arthur when she became ill, and was brought to the Luling hospital four weeks before her death. She was only 28 years old.
This was taken from obituary.
She has gone from her dear ones,
her children and home.
Whom she willingly toiled for
and loved as her own.
Oh, God! how mysterious and
how strange are Thy ways.
To take from us this lived one in
the best of her days.----A Friend
Mattie Leona "Sis" was the daughter of Ernest Wiseman "Wisie" and Lillie Alice (Crowell) Biggs.
Her siblings were: William Jennings "Willie J.' Biggs, John Vernon "Pete" Biggs, Alton Francis "Doc" Biggs, Sarah Bernice "Dollie" (Biggs)[Hinds] McCampbell, Olga Dorothy "Dick" (Biggs) Huff, and Alta May "Dottie" (Biggs) Mace.
Leona married Charles Henry West in San Antonio, Texas on Dec. 24, 1932. Together they had three children.
At the time of her death the boys were 2 yrs. 9 mos., 4 yrs.,and their daughter, Barbara Ann "Bobbie", was only seventeen months old.
The two sons were rised by their father and Bobbie was raised by Leona's parents.
Leona had been living in Port Arthur when she became ill, and was brought to the Luling hospital four weeks before her death. She was only 28 years old.
This was taken from obituary.
She has gone from her dear ones,
her children and home.
Whom she willingly toiled for
and loved as her own.
Oh, God! how mysterious and
how strange are Thy ways.
To take from us this lived one in
the best of her days.----A Friend


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