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In Memory

Melvin Riggens - Class Of 1955

INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Melvin Owen Riggens
Birth          10 Jun 1936, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Death          8 Dec 1955 (aged 19), Gary, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Burial         Evergreen Memorial Park, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Memorial ID    225875629

Father: Clyde Weldon Riggens (his father has a headstone near Melvin but no death date. He appears to have died in Florida in 1983, burial unknown at this time. His father's second wife Harriet is buried near Melvin)

This information and the pictures below were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225875629/melvin-owen-riggens. The picture above was obtained from the 1955 HHS Memories yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1955Images/.

Melvin Riggens gravestone, Class of 1955  Melvin Riggens's father's gravestone, Class of 1955

OBITUARY ARTICLE FROM THE HAMMOND TIMES, DECEMBER 8, 1955:

Melvin Riggens obit article, Class of 1957
This article was obtained via Newspapers.com, from: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-melvinriggens/155527812/.