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Surnames: BIGGS
Classification: Query
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I am searching for an obit for my grandmother, Bessie BIGGS, died in Las Vegas, I am
pretty sure in 1964. I was adopted out of the Biggs family so having an awful time trying
to reconstruct it all.
Bessie BIGGS (also known as Bessie Taylor), lived on Bonanza Ave.(St) and had worked for
years as janitor for Clark Co.School Dist., (5th St. Grammar School) thru 1952 or 3???.
She lived for some years at the Helldorado Village (as caretaker?).
My father, Thurman Sylvanus BIGGS, (son of Bessie), died in 1941. I found online cemetery
records from Woodlawn Cemt. in Vegas, shows his birth recorded as 1916 (no date & no
place), and his death on 11 May 1941, burial - 14 May 1941.
I believe he was born in Knoxville TN,
If I can find an obit for either of them - perhaps that will lead me to more info.
I've reached brick walls - it's as tho' they really never existed!!
I do know (I think) that the Biggs brothers, Felix & Wesley must have worked on the
Boulder Dam project.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
R.