Lon Harold Higgerson of Chesapeake City County, VA was born on November 14, 1914 to Harry Clifton Higgerson and Ruth Mary (Mertens) Higgerson. He had siblings Geneva H Mince, Ivan Higgerson, Anna Lee (Higgerson) Denkle, Dolly Leaverne (Higgerson) Mason, and Marjorie Higgerson. He married Eunice Nora (Mince) Higgerson on September 28, 1935, and they were married until Eunice's death on March 13, 1999. He had a child Don Harold Higgerson. Lon Higgerson died at age 96 years old on April 11, 2011, and was buried at Chesapeake Memorial Gardens 524 Cedar Rd, in Chesapeake.
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Graduated from Frank W. Cox High School on Great Neck Rd in Virginia Beach, VA, in 1970 when I was 17 years old. My immediate family of four generations consists of the surnames: Mason, Higgerson, McKenzie, Norwood, Mertens, Garrison, Harris, Weckenmann, Chewning, Wimp, Merzenich, and Werz.