Boice, Helen Gertrude Riggs
Passed: 1949-03-14
Age: 39
Source: Jackson Herald
Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 1949-03-25
Information: Boice, Helen Gertrude Riggs Mrs. Helen Gertrude Boice, 39, wife of Okey Glen Boice, and who was the former Helen Riggs of Sandyville, was found dead in the basement of her Parkersburg home Monday by her two daughters when they returned home from school. The girls, Connie Ann and Sandra Lee, returned home at noon and found their mother in the basement where she had been preparing to wash clothes. It was reported that there was a slight bruise on her face as though she had fallen. Wood County Coroner R. W. Corbitt, who performed an autopsy, reported that the death was due to natural causes. Surviving, in addition to her husband and daughters, are two brothers, Delbert E. Riggs of Ravenswood and Wayne B. Riggs of Smithburg; four sisters, Mrs. Goldie Kirkman of Charleston, Mrs. Frank Snyder of Sandyville, Mrs. A. L. Rymer of Williamstown, and Mrs. Roland Myers of Huntington, and her mother, Mrs. M. Riggs of Parkersburg. (Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection)