Lenetta "Jane" Riggs

Lenetta “Jane” Riggs, 87, passed Friday, October 16th in Bossier City, Louisiana.  Jane was born in Memphis in 1933.  The only child of Irene Bennett and Leon Presnell, Jane considered her first cousins her sisters and best friends.  After the death of her father, 13-year-old Jane and her mother moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas. There, she met Claude Eugene “Gene” Riggs Jr. and the two were married in Hughes, Arkansas in 1952.  The couple celebrated the arrival of their children Dana and Gene in 1955 and 1958.  As an Air Force wife, Jane navigated her family’s moves throughout the country until finally landing in Bossier City, Louisiana. She carried many titles, but her proudest came in 1980 when she became Our Nanny.  She was a doting grandmother, beloved Parkway High School substitute, and her gregarious nature ensured that she never met a stranger.

Jane was preceded in death by her mother Emma Irene Bennett, father Leon Presnell and step father James William Prescott.  She is survived by her husband, Claude Eugene Riggs Jr., her children Dana Lynne Riggs Todd (David), Claude Eugene Riggs III (Sarah), her grandchildren Charles Eugene Riggs (Sarah), Samuel Thomas Riggs (Anna), Alison Elizabeth Todd (Justin “Travis”), David Alexander Todd, Abigail Bennett Todd and Natalie Jane Riggs, her 5 great-grandchildren and generations of family and friends.