Annual Report - 2001
Legacy Story - Jack & Margery Riggs

For most of their adult lives, home for Jack and Margery Riggs was in Midland, where Jack was a leader in the oil and gas business. The couple’s fifty-year marriage was blessed with a family of three daughters, Kathy Grella, Susan Brown, and Bryan Huggins.

In addition to their active role as parents, Jack and Margery were tireless community volunteers.

“We were always helping with their volunteer work,” remembers Bryan, who, like her sisters, is also active in community activities. “Mom and Dad always went ‘above and beyond’ in whatever they did, and you can’t be better example than that.”

Margery and Jack were great supporters of Trinity School, which all three girls attended.

When Trinity opened its doors at the new campus in the fall of 1962, Margery, who had been a schoolteacher in younger years, organized the new school library – a huge commitment of volunteer time.

Margaret Farrell, a longtime family friend and former Trinity teacher recalled, “Margery had a genuine love of books and reading and a special affinity for the arts. She was a marvelous artist in her own right.”

Jack served on Trinity’s board of trustees from 1986 through 1992, and as chairman of the board during the addition of a high school to Trinity’s campus.

Margery and Jack Riggs generously shared their time, talents and resources during their lives in the Midland community they loved.

Following Margery’s death in 2000, and Jack’s in 2001, their planned estate gift to Permian Basin Area Foundation created a permanent legacy of their sharing in the form of the Jack and Margery Riggs Fund. This gift will sustain charitable causes for generations to come.