Funeral of Walter Bertram Riggle

Name/Title

Funeral of Walter Bertram Riggle

Entry/Object ID

2019.20.33

Description

Funeral procession of Walter Bertram Riggle, Lieutenant, Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division. Killed in action 29 July 1918, Cierges, France. Walter's body was brought home from temporary burial in France and reinterred following a military funeral on 4 June 1922 in Centennial Cemetery, Aleppo Township, Greene, Pennsylvania.

Collection

Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1922

Lexicon

Search Terms

Aleppo (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Centennial Cemetery, Flag--United States, Funerals, Military, Rain Day Boys, Riggle family, Veterans--World War I

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

RIGL-AN001-0033

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Riggle, Walter Bertram [1894-1918]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Riggle Series - Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Notes

The Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection was passed from Lewis Perry Riggle and his wife, Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle, to their son Karl Wayne Riggle and his wife, Anna Geraldine (Whipkey) Riggle, to their daughter, Marcene (Riggle) Schutz, to her niece, Paula (Riggle) Whitfill who presently owns and has digitized the collection. Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover collaborated to share selected items from the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2018. Source Citation: Funeral of Walter Bertram Riggle, item no. RIGL-AN001-0033, Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection, shared by Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).