African American. Alaska Highway. Company A. Born: January 21, 1908, Oatey, Floyd County, VA. Died: December 21, 1981, Akron, Summit, OH. Enlisted: February 25, 1942, Ft. Thomas, Newport, KY and discharged October 20, 1945.
Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: miner at American Coal Company and his obituary states that he worked twenty five years as a mill room operator at General Tire and Rubber Company.
His father was Lawrence Briggs and his mother was Ellen West Briggs. He married Cloateal Betty Norrell on October 9, 1946 in Christiansburg, VA. They divorced and Betty married James Hobart Kirk. After James passed, Betty and John remarried on November 23, 1957.
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