Keith Riggs

Graveside Services for Keith Riggs, 69, Clinton resident will be held 11:00 A.M., Saturday, February 27, 2021 in the Clinton Cemetery officiated by Rev. Ledtkey McIntosh and under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. A Traditional Wake Service will be held 6:00 P.M. till 8:00 P.M., Friday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel officiated by Woody Kinney. Francis Keith Riggs, Jr., was born March 31, 1951 to Francis Keith Riggs, Sr. and Gwendolyn (Fire) Riggs in Clinton, OK and passed away Monday, February 22, 2021 in the Oklahoma City Veterans Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK. Keith was raised in Clinton and graduated from Chilocco Indian School in Newkirk, OK in 1969. He immediately enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp and served 13 months in Okinawa. He was honorably discharged in 1973 and returned back home to Clinton, OK. He was married to Betty Bearhead and later he married Brenda Standingwater. He worked for the Kellwood Factory before being involved in an automobile accident that left him disabled for the past 43 years. He was a member of the Cheyenne/Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was preceded in death by his two wives; parents, two sons, Grady Riggs and an infant son; sister, Carole Riggs Morris and brother, Dwight Riggs. He is survived by daughter, Kehly Riggs, adopted sons, Chabon Warden and Merrick Warden, both of Clinton; four sisters, Diana Barton, Clinton, Adrienne Kinney and husband, Woodrow, Shawnee, OK Terry Dawn Villines and husband, Ben, Weatherford, OK, Judi Detmer and husband Lynn of Glen Pool, OK; brother Robert Riggs, and wife, Rosa of Erving, TX. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Lena Warden and Mekko Riggs.