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- Free Press, Greenfield, Iowa, 26 Dec 1940: Funeral Services for Mrs. C. M. Rigg, 70
Funeral services for Mrs. C. M. Rigg were held Frieday afternoon at the Methodist church in Greenfield. The Rev. M. R. Talley conducted the services. Music was funished by Mrs. D. R. Earl, Mrs. J. A. Barr, M.G. Kellam and F. E. Rhodes with Miss Ethel Carl as accompanist. The selections: "Jesus Saviour Pilot Me", "Abide With Me" and "Lead Kindly Light". Those serving as pallbearers were: H.F. Shirk, R.J. Reed, Ed Bohan, Sam Plymesser, Claude Martin and Elmer Piper. Burial took place in the Greenfield cemetery.
Sarah Elizabeth Garber was born November 21, 1870, in Jefferson County, Iowa, third child of David H. and Ellen Winder-Garber. When she was seven the family moved to Ness County, Kansas, where they took up a preemption claim, pioneering in a sid house until their frame house was built. There she grew to young womanhood, she and her sister often keeping the house and family while their mother did the nursing of the community, and their father its carpentry.
When she was seventeen years of age they moved to Aspen, Colorado. There within a year her father and two of her sisters were taken in death. The next year the fatherless family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado and the older ones scattered to support themselves.
She was married March 4, 1890 to Charles M. Rigg. They made their home on his farm near Fort Collins where three sons were born. In the spring of 1894 they brought their boys to Iowa, driving overland with teams. They resided in the vicinity of Stuart until 1896, when they settled on the present home farm near Greenfield. It was here they reared their family of four sons and five daughters to maturity.
She was preceded in death by her husband, who passed on in 1932, and by her eldest daughter, Bessie, who joined her Maker at her missin station in Nadiad, India in 1935.
Although she had reached the age of 70 years in November, Mrs. Riggs had continued the management of her household. It was while doing her work on December 9, that she met with the accident which resulted in her death on Sunday morning, December 15, 1940.
She leaves her children: Elstun, Charles W., and Theodore at home; Mrs. Rolla Hollingsworth of Greenfield; Cleoma, of Pleasanton, Iowa; John D., of Tularosa, New Mexico; and Mrs. Ira Launder and Mary Rigg, of Bell Gardens, California; a step-daughter, Mrs. Sidney W. Cooper of Fort Collins, Colorado; and three grandchildren, Joseph, Theoma, and Elstun Launder.
Surviving also are three sisters, Mrs. Ella Lamb, of Fort Collings, Colorado; Mrs. Bessie Mason, of Tacoma, Washington, and Mrs. J.R. Baker, of Pratt, Kansas; two brothers, Levi Garber, of Pratt, Kansas, and S.A. Garber of Tacoma, Washington; her nieces and nephews, and other relatives and friends to whom her character and personality have endeared her.
She was reared in the Church of the Brethren of which her father was a lay minister. She was always a sincere Christian and, since the closing of the Community church at Old Groveland, has been a member of the Methodist church of Greenfield. She belonged to the American Legion Auxiliary, the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, and has been a lifelong member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Possessed of broad interests and many talents for self-expression, she made her home and the rearing of her family her career, giving to her children inspiration and encouragement for their lives. Although her days were chiefly spent in her home, her friendships encircled the globe.
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