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Burney W Riggs 1914 - 2007

Burney W Riggs of Savannah, Chatham County, GA was born on August 18, 1914, and died at age 93 years old on October 9, 2007.
Burney W Riggs
Savannah, Chatham County, GA 31406
August 18, 1914
October 9, 2007
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  • 08/18
    1914

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    August 18, 1914
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  • 10/9
    2007

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    October 9, 2007
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    Burney W Riggs lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.
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In 1914, in the year that Burney W Riggs was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1924, by the time this person was just 10 years old, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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