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Richard Guy (Dick) Wiggins
contributed by The Hugo Daily News

    Funeral Services for Richard Guy (Dick) Wiggins of Ft. Towson were held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 21, 2005, in the Bill Darrough Pavilion at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Hugo with Reverend Troy Blue and Jerry Kendricks officiating. Mr. Wiggins died Friday, March 18, 2005, in Ft. Towson. He was 90.
    Richard Guy (Dick) Wiggins was born on November 22, 1914 to Eugene Franklin and Malissa (Nelson) Wiggins in Sulphur, Okla. He [sic] mother was a Chickasaw Indian princess. Dick passed from this life Friday, March 18, 2005. He attended grade school and high school at Sulphur, Okla., and attended Murray State Junior College at Tishomingo and Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater, all during the Great Depression. After finishing four years of college in 1936 during the great Depression, he got a job with Armour and Co. in Oklahoma City as a truck driver. His routes were in southeastern Oklahoma and he thought this was the prettiest country, with all the tall pretty pine trees an clean water. In September 1940, the Oklahoma 45th National Guard Division was called into active service and since he had been a member since 1933, he was inducted. In 1942 he was sent on a cadre to the 653rd Engineer Bn. where he was a M/Sgt. and went overseas to India with this unit. After a year in India, he was transferred to China for 13 months. He spent five years and three months on active service. After the war he went to work for the state and in 1959-1960 he was sent to Ft. Towson in charge of opening and building Lake Raymond Gary Park. He later put in 20 years with the welfare department in Hugo. He and his wife Bertha bought 40 acres northwest of Ft. Towson in 1971, where he continued to live. He was a member of the Spencerville Community Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Bertha; and one brother, Eugene Wiggins.
    He is survived by one daughter, Jackie Custer of Chelsea, Okla.; one brother, John Wiggins of Oklahoma; and one sister, Tama Ruth Luther; one granchild, Lindsey Childress of Chelsea, Okla.; one great-grandchild, Marshal Childress of Chelsea, Okla.; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
    The family received friends Sunday, March 20, 2005, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home Chapel in Hugo.Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home.
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