Obituary
Vigorous V. Higgins, age 104, passed away on Friday, September 21, 2007, in Lewisville.
Mr. Higgins was born in Castana, Iowa, on December 19, 1902. After graduating from high school in Onawa, Iowa, he went on to Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, where he received a business degree in 1926. He had a number of jobs in Chicago and Alta, Iowa during the depression years and then in 1937 to the middle of 1943 he was employed in the Buena Vista County Auditors office in Storm Lake, Iowa. After leaving the auditors office, he worked as an Internal Revenue Service Auditor until his retirement in 1969 at which time he and his wife Marjorie moved to Bradenton, Florida. He lived in Bradenton until 2001 when he moved to Lewisville Estates Assisted Care Facility in Lewisville, Texas. He resided at the Lewisville Estates until his death.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Julius and Gae Higgins, by two brothers, Leo and Bernard Higgins, and by his first wife of 52 years, Marjorie Tinknell Higgins who passed away in Bradenton, Florida in 1980. He is also predeceased by his second wife of 9 years, Florence Mann Higgins, who he married in Bradenton in 1990 and by his grandson Robert Dean Higgins who passed away in 2003.
Mr. Higgins is survived by a son, Charles Higgins and his wife, Jean of Lewisville, Texas and a daughter Ann Brott of Omaha, Nebraska. He is also survived by grandchildren, James Higgins and his wife, Kelly, Janet Kurth and her husband, Barry, and Julie Godbersen and her husband, Grant. He is also survived by great grandchildren, Allyson and Matthew Higgins, Andrew and Hannah Kurth and Jennifer and Jackson Godbersen.
A visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 26, 2007, with the funeral to follow at 11:00 a.m. at Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home,
148 W. Church Street, Lewisville, Texas. In Lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to a charity of your choice.
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