This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Briggs; Rihner; Brown; Clayton; Sickels; Berg; Bozwell; Warren; Hurley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/1912 Message Board Post: Michelle Dawn Briggs Rihner ©Daily Nonpareil 06/24/2005 Age 33, of Walnut, Iowa. Formerly of Avoca, Iowa and Red Oak, Iowa, passed away suddenly on June 17, 2005 at her home. Michelle Dawn Briggs Rihner was born December 5, 1971 in Red Oak. She was the daughter of Harlan and Mildred (Brown) Briggs. Over the years Michelle attended school at Nishna Valley, Red Oak, and Stanton, Iowa. Michelle had three significant relationships in her life with Robin Clayton, Quentin Sickels (father of her children) and the last being Dan Rihner. She was currently employed at Kum & Go in Atlantic, Iowa. Michelle was preceded in death by her grandparents; William Brown; and Clarence and Cleo Berg; her mother, Mildred Brown; nephew, Dylan Briggs; and a great niece, Madison Bozwell. Survivors include her children, Nick Briggs, Destiney, Mason and Haley Sickels, all of Villisca, Iowa; stepson, Caleb Rihner, of Harlan, Iowa; stepdaughter, Ashley Rihner, of Hayes, Kansas; father, Harlan Briggs, and wife, Mary, of Council Bluffs, grandmother, Pheba Brown, of Hastings, Iowa; brothers, Bill Briggs, and wife, Wendy, Raymond Briggs, and wife, Angie, both of Red Oak, Iowa; sisters, Kim Warren, and friend, Jane Voboril, of Lincoln, Neb., Teri Briggs, and friend, Mark Walters, of Lincoln, Neb., Shelley Hurley of Missouri; many aunts; uncles; nieces; nephews and many other relatives and friends. Memorials are suggested to the family or to the Funeral Home, Nelson-Boylan-LeRette, of Red Oak, Iowa. Cremation took place after the service.