Griggs - Sarah Woodyard - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source Globe-Gazette, Mason City, Iowa - 5 June 1961 p 22

Britt - Mrs. Sarah E. Griggs, 83, a longtime Britt resident, died at her home here Saturday. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Boughton Funeral Home in Britt. The Rev. Robert Jones of the Wesley Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery here. Sarah Elizabeth Woodyard was born in Fredericksburg, Ind., Sept. 18, 1877, to Philmore and Margaret Lochmiller Woodyard. She was married to Wallace Griggs, Feb. 23, 1904. They farmed near here until retiring to Britt, in 1945. Her husband died in 1947. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Olive Fegenbush, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Mary McNary, Britt; John, on the farm here; two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Belle Henderson, Salem, Ind.; Mrs. Eva Davis, DePauw, Ind.; Mrs. Hattie LeGrande, Louisville, Ky

Thanks so much to Ginny A for this one - kz