Show J j K 4 q tile I t r I Brig Gen Loren Briggs is shown left as he received an au air all force distinguished award recently Loren Briggs dies of heart attack General Loren D. D Briggs a Bountiful native died Friday morning at of a aheart aheart aheart heart attack according to word received from Ellsworth Force Base South Dakota where he was stationed A career man in the United States Stales Air Force he was made a full General last year when he he- was only 41 years years old Loren D. D Briggs was born December 16 1917 in Bountiful to Loren D D. D and md Jane Vinegar Briggs When he was wac just 16 months old h his sfa parents rents were killed in an accident at the Bamburger tracks on South He and his brother Jim went to live with their grandmother Mrs 1 Briggs and their Aunt Sylvia on West Vest Center Street Later they moved d to Eighth East where their uncle Thomas Amby Briggs Driggs was a father to them A gr graduate duale of Davis High Loren went wenton on to graduate from the Utah State Agri Agri- cultural college Entering the service from front college he was made a Lieutenant Colonel at the a age e of 26 He was in active duty during the Second World War Var He also flew the tho first into Hill Bill Air Force Base in 1958 General Briggs was married to former Ruth Gordon of Bountiful They had three children Dale Ann Janio Janie anad Gordon Earl Besides his wife and children he is survived by his brother James William Villiam in California Full military services will be held hela M Monday Mon Monday Mon Mon- n- n da day at Ellsworth Air Force Base The body will then be brought to Bountiful where there will a viewing vic at the Union Mortuary Tuesday evening and Wednesday prior to funeral services Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- February in the Bountiful 3rd- 3rd ward chapel at pm p.m. Buriel will be in the Bountiful Cemetery |