LEONARD E. GRIGGS

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Leonard Eugene Griggs of Water Valley, Miss., will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home, with the Rev. Bill Summers officiating. Burial will be in Smith-Griggs Cemetery near Wyatt.

Griggs, 73, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 1994, at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

He was born June 28, 1921, in Mississippi County, son of Leondis Nathan "Lee" and Jetty Levelle Brown Griggs. He and Mary Dollahite were married Oct. 4, 1966.

Griggs had lived in Water Valley since 1966, and had been a heavy equipment operator in pipeline construction. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Survivors include two sons, Mike and Thomas Scroggins of Water Valley; three daughters, Linda Barrett and Mary Adkins of Belleville, Ill., Patricia Boyte of Newberry, Fla.; six brothers, Robert Griggs of Mesquite, Texas, Douglass Griggs of Chicago, Nathan Griggs of Brawley, Calif., Morris, Richard and Sam Griggs of Charleston; three sisters, Virginia Moss of Charleston, Erma Crecelius of Avondale, Ariz., Earline Manar of Rogers, Ark.; 11 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.