John Rudy Riggs hospitalized

John Rudy Riggs, who attended Monongah High before the family moved to Detroit, is in ICU at WVU’s Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, reports Mary “Kitty” Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968, who lives on Lyndon Avenue in Monongah.

He had double knee-replacement surgery in July.

John Rudy is an Eastern Michigan University graduate and retired general manager/vice president of Orchard Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram at Washington, Michigan. His wife is Lisa Riggs.

Son Joe Riggs lives in Shelby Charter Township, Michigan and once lived 17 miles away in Roseville, Michigan. Daughter Janis Carriveau-Riggs lives in Lum, Michigan, which is 50 miles north of Roseville.

John Rudy’s brother, W. Scott Riggs, 45, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, passed away in 1991. Like John Rudy, Scott attended Monongah High. Their father was Walter Scott Riggs, Jr. and their mother and stepfather were Helen Tropea Riggs Bieglecki and Edmund Bieglecki of Wolverine, Michigan.

Helen had siblings Christine Tropea Jacobin, Class of 1935; Vincent Tropea; Marguerite Tropea Matthews, Class of 1926, who married Simon Matthews, and was the mother of Simon Paul Matthews, Jr., Class of 1956; and Virginia Tropea Neri, Class of 1931, who married Peter Neri.