Larry Briggs

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Larry Briggs, 71, died July 29, 2020.

Born March 18, 1949, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of the late Eunice Briggs and Dorothy Briggs Jacobs, was a 1967 graduate of Charleston High School. He was a member of the starting five for Charleston High School’s first team to win a regional championship and a state playoff game during the 1966-1967 season. He also became the first All-State basketball player in Charleston Blue Jay history. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and received a bachelor’s degree. He became the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association triple jump champion in 1969. He along with the 1969 track team were inducted into the 2010 Southeast Missouri State University Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduation, he joined the 42nd Recruit Class for the Missouri State Highway Patrol and graduated from the Missouri State Highway Patrol Law Enforcement Academy in April 1973. He retired from headquarters as a corporal after 20 years of service. He later worked for the United States Postal Service before retiring in 2004. He was a member of Quinn Chapel AME Church in Jefferson City, Missouri.

On Dec. 24, 1972, in Charleston, he married Glenda Joyce Lane, who survives of the home in Jefferson City.

Other survivors include: one daughter, Laryssa (Alvin) Creswell of Upper Marlboro, Maryland; one son, Lerone (Aimee) Briggs of Jefferson City; three brothers, Daniel Briggs of Gary, Indiana, Tommy Briggs of California and Sherdell “Dell” Briggs of Iowa City, Iowa; one sister, Shirley Dilworth of Litchfield Park, Arizona; and five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

He was also preceded in death by sisters Bertha Kelly, Maxcine Hawthorne, and Earline Hudson.

Visitation is from 10:30 a.m. until noon Monday at the Williams Funeral Home in Charleston. The service and interment will be private.