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Date: 5 Aug 2006 18:55:30 -0600

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News Review newspaper Ridgecrest Ca Kern County
February 22, 2006

GENE RIGGS

Gene Riggs died Feb. 16, 2006 in Creede, Colo. He was 78.
His funeral was held on Feb. 20 at the Baptist church in Creede.
Mr. Riggs was born Oct. 1, 1927 in Conway Springs, Kan. He served in the US Navy and was in the Korean War in 1950.
He took up permanent residency in Creede in 1969 but for the past 15 years has been a winter resident of Ridgecrest where he participated in community events including the Christmas parades and Death Valley trail rides.
Interment immediately followed the funeral.

Ode to Gene Riggs - 1927 to 2006
One of the "Three Musty-steers From Kansas"
by Martin L. Webber
Another Musty-Steer now residing in Ridgecrest

This old cowboy came a-rolling into town, sort of like a tumbleweed - not too dusty - but grizzled and dour
Claimed "his legs weren't bowed and his cheeks ain't tanned" - But he was wrong!
Said he was bred and born in Conway Springs, Kansas but now hailed from Creede, Colorado
His "horse" was a piebald Dodge pickup and looked like it might have been re-shod lately
And he, the driver, had a scraggly beard, which reminded one of a shredded wheat biscuit with powdered sugar dusted over it
And he kept a little "peench" between cheek and gums - and he knew how to spit and whittle
But he had a keen mind, which he mostly kept under cover - sort of like an "ace in the hole."
And he didn't seem to have a mean streak in him - said he was "known" in creede for something - but didn't tell me what it was
And he had a way with horses - and evidently with the "fillies"
And, well, he was just a huge hunk of "beef in bibs"
Those who knew him will miss him something fierce!

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