The Shemwell Family

Name
Betty Alice Riggs
Given names
Betty Alice
Surname
Riggs
Married name
Betty Alice Carroll
Birth August 5, 1933 23 20
Birth of a brotherJohnny Ray Riggs
September 7, 1935 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a sisterEdith Ellen Riggs
October 7, 1937 (Age 4 years)
Census April 11, 1940 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a sisterCarol Ann Riggs
November 6, 1941 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a brotherTeddy Lee Riggs
October 17, 1943 (Age 10 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 8 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 16 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Death of a paternal grandfatherCharles I Riggs
July 15, 1954 (Age 20 years)

Death of a paternal grandmotherSusan Ella Will
May 31, 1957 (Age 23 years)

Death of a maternal grandfatherEzra Jackson Easley
December 19, 1969 (Age 36 years)
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 12 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death of a sisterCarol Ann Riggs
November 3, 1977 (Age 44 years)
Death of a maternal grandmotherAllenah David Megehee
August 20, 1979 (Age 46 years)
Death of a fatherTed Riggs
October 13, 1994 (Age 61 years)
Death of a brotherJohnny Ray Riggs
September 6, 1997 (Age 64 years)
Death of a motherAlice Elizabeth Easley
October 21, 1999 (Age 66 years)
Death of a sisterEdith Ellen Riggs
August 11, 2007 (Age 74 years)
Death of a brotherTeddy Lee Riggs
January 6, 2011 (Age 77 years)
Death June 10, 2016 (Age 82 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mustang Cemetery
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