James Griggs Dies Suddenly
James M. Griggs, a nearly life-long resident of Lewis county, died suddenly Friday night at the age of 53.
Mr. Griggs moved to Lewis county as a boy, having been born in Udell, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1901. During his lifetime, the deceased workd for a lumber company in Onalaska, was in the collection business with his brother, George M., in Chehalis, and for the past four years has run an antique shop near the Fords Prairie crossing with his wife, Nettie.
Mr. Griggs was a member of the Chehalis Elks lodge, Onalaska lodge No. 261, F. and A.M., the Episcopal church in Centralia and was a former justice of the peace.
Surviving are his wife at the family home, his mother, Mrs. C. E. Prince, Onalaska; a daughter, Mrs. Gaile Spicer, Port Orchard; two brothers, George M., Everett, and C. Edward Prince Jr., Seattle; three sisters, Mrs. Leah Carlisle and Mrs. Eleanor Ricker, both Everett, and Mrs. Maybelle Webley, Bellingham; and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p.m. in the John W. Boone mortuary, Chehalis, with the Rev. Willis M. Rosenthal officiating. Interment will be at Mountain View.
Pallbearers will be Francis Moses, Lee Campbell, Grant Armstrong, Tom Cole, Mannie Kolecsk and Frank Schmikola.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Lewis Co., Washington. Saturday, 13 Mar 1954, front page.
Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen. She has no further information on this individual.