LEILAR E. BRIGGS

SUMMERTON - Leilar Emma Huggins Witherspoon Briggs, 92, widow of Ellison Witherspoon and Willie Briggs, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia. She was born Aug. 15, 1922, in Summerton, a daughter of the late Dave Huggins and Carrie Harris Huggins Smith.

Funeral services for Mrs. Briggs will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Summerton, with the Rev. O'Donald Dingle, pastor. Burial will follow in St. Matthew AME Church Cemetery in Summerton.

Family will be receiving friends at the home of her son, Willie Briggs, 5794 Summerton Highway/U.S. 15, Summerton. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC, Manning.