DR. LLOYD BRIGGS

ADA-Services for Dr. Lloyd Delano Briggs, 75, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Ada, Dr. George Warren will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Dr. Briggs died Monday, October 26, 2009 at his home. He was born December 21, 1933 near Center, Oklahoma to Marvin Utah and Beulah Grace McKinley Briggs. He attended Center, Bebee and Wilson elementary schools and graduated from Vanoss High School. He served in the U. S. Army from July 9, 1953 to June 3, 1955. He was trained and assigned as a helicopter mechanic, serving in Korea and Japan as a department supervisor in a helicopter overhaul depot. He attended Oklahoma State University and received an Associate Degree in Electronics in 1957, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics in 1961, a Master of Science Degree in Technical Education in 1965, and his Doctorate Degree in Higher Education in 1971.

He married Mary Ann Griffith on June 14, 1958 in Ada. Dr. Briggs was an Electronics Technician at Sandia Corporation, a research and development laboratory in Albuquerque, NM from 1957-1958. From 1961 until 1963, he taught electronics at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City, from 1963 until 1965, was the Assistant Professor and Head of Electronics Dept. at the OSU branch campus in Oklahoma City and from 1965 until 1966, served as the Assistant State Supervisor of Technical Education with the State Department of Vocational Technical Education.

In 1966 until 1968, he was the Field Director of the Oklahoma State University/Ford Foundation funded project in Brazil establishing post-secondary technical education throughout the country. From 1968-1970, he was the Assistant Professor of Technical Education in the School of Occupational and Adult Education at OSU. From 1970-1972, served as the Chief of Career Education Personnel Development at the U.S. Dept. of Education in Washington, D.C. and from 1972-1980, was the Professor and Director of the School of Occupational and Adult Education at Oklahoma State University. From 1980 until 1996, he was the Principal Education Specialist with The World Bank in Washington, D.C.

During his professional career, Dr. Briggs served on regional and national advisory committees and in several professional organizations. Following his retirement and returning to the Ada area, he assumed leadership positions with the Pontotoc County Retired Educators, Vanoss Education Enrichment Foundation, the First United Methodist Church, and the Ada Lions Club.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Briggs, of the home; a daughter, Necia Smith and her husband Scott, Jenks; a son, Les Briggs and his wife Patrice, Dale City, VA; his mother, Beulah Briggs, Ada; three brothers, James Briggs, Ada, Bill Briggs and wife Glenda, Ada, and Howard Briggs and wife Juanita, Stratford; one sister, Pat Brown and husband Robert, Pickett; three grandsons, Alan Josiah Briggs, Jason Alexander Briggs, and Nathaniel Lewis Briggs, all of Dale City, VA; a granddaughter, Madelyn Joy Smith, Jenks; and a brother-in-law, Joe Griffith and wife Shirley, Georgetown, TX.

He was preceded in death by his father, Marvin Briggs in February, 1992; an infant son, Kendall Lloyd Briggs on April 3, 1962; and a sister-in-law, Marzell Briggs in December, 2005.

Bearers will be Billy Rice, Floyd Gurley, Neal Beasley, Jim Stevens, Jack Rahm, and Buddy Watkins. Honorary bearers will be Fred Bowerman, Elvin Jaquess, Jim Kirby, Jim Laxton, Jack Martin, George Myrick, Tom Boatwright, members of the Fellowship Sunday School Class of the First United Methodist Church, and members of the Ada Lions Club.

The family says those who wish may make memorials to the charity of their choice.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada