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Noah Benjamin “Ben” Biggs

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Noah Benjamin “Ben” Biggs

Birth
Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, USA
Death
Mar 1972 (aged 77)
Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
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Bk 7 - Lt 41
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Funeral services for Ben Biggs, longtime Cherryvale resident, who died Sunday night at Mercy Hospital in Independence, will be held at 2:30 Thursday at the Burns Chapel. Bob Brock, minister of the Cherryvale Christian Church, will preside. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mr. Biggs was a retired oil and gas rig builder. He was born Oct. 11, 1894 in Chilicothe, Mo. the son of Charles and Rachel (Simpkins) Biggs. On Oct. 22, 1937 at Hutchinson he was married to Letha McNeal, who survives at the home. Other survivors include: a son, Robert B. Biggs, Puyallup, Wash.; a daughter, Mrs. Vincent (Betty Lou) Culbertson, Iola (Note - Betty Lou was from his first marriage to Mary Eberhardt); two sisters, Nannie Kerschner of Hutchinson and Jean Kelso of Sacramento, Calif.; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, a daughter, two brothers and three sisters. - Independence Reporter, March 21, 1972, page 2.
(Obit per Cheryl White)

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*WWI Draft shows birthplace as Breckinridge, Missouri
Funeral services for Ben Biggs, longtime Cherryvale resident, who died Sunday night at Mercy Hospital in Independence, will be held at 2:30 Thursday at the Burns Chapel. Bob Brock, minister of the Cherryvale Christian Church, will preside. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mr. Biggs was a retired oil and gas rig builder. He was born Oct. 11, 1894 in Chilicothe, Mo. the son of Charles and Rachel (Simpkins) Biggs. On Oct. 22, 1937 at Hutchinson he was married to Letha McNeal, who survives at the home. Other survivors include: a son, Robert B. Biggs, Puyallup, Wash.; a daughter, Mrs. Vincent (Betty Lou) Culbertson, Iola (Note - Betty Lou was from his first marriage to Mary Eberhardt); two sisters, Nannie Kerschner of Hutchinson and Jean Kelso of Sacramento, Calif.; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, a daughter, two brothers and three sisters. - Independence Reporter, March 21, 1972, page 2.
(Obit per Cheryl White)

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*WWI Draft shows birthplace as Breckinridge, Missouri

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  • Created by: Freda P
  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36584375/noah_benjamin-biggs: accessed ), memorial page for Noah Benjamin “Ben” Biggs (11 Oct 1894–Mar 1972), Find a Grave Memorial ID 36584375, citing Fairview Cemetery, Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by Freda P (contributor 47044704).