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Union Square News
Ruby Johnson
Mr. Aairon Riggins
Union Square is mourning and missing a wonderful friend and neighbor, Mr. Aairon Riggins.
Home-going service for him was held at the New Home Baptist Church in Rockford on August 20, with his former pastor, Christopher Todd, doing the eulogy. The love was shown in Pastor Todd’s message, the love they had for each other.
Everything Todd spoke were great facts about Mr. Riggins. He was a faithful man in all ways, his church, home, community, and he was a great husband to the only wife (deceased) Mrs. Elsie Owens Riggins, my dear friend, a great father and friend.
Aairon actually preached his own eulogy while he lived, Todd expressed. He said the work Aairon did spoke for itself. His son Earnest went to supreme court and won. He did an awesome job speaking on his father, and afterward Pastor Todd dismissed the court, with Sheryl Borden and New Home’s choir singing praises to God for a wonderful home-going for a wonderful man of God, Mr. Aairon Riggins.
We cannot leave Anthony Borden out, who played sweet mellow music, but powerful! This service could not have been any better. Pastor Todd did what he came to do. However, he preached himself happy!
Now let me tell a little of my story about Mr. Riggins. Aairon and I grew up together. Actually, the whole family. He was like a blood brother to me. When we got older I would call him Mr. Riggins because he was a man of respect, honesty and faithfulness. Of all of his doing, you could depend on him.
He was a Union Square resident all of his life. When we got physical (E-911) addresses in Union Square, the short street where the Riggins lived all their life was named Shelly Riggins Road after Aairon’s father.
Mr. Riggins was a faithful member of Union Square’s Neighborhood Watch. He did not miss a meeting, even when he was down in the valley. He kept moving to the top with no complaints. His friend, President Kenny Shaw, used to joke with him about falling asleep at some of the cookouts, but nevertheless he was always there.
The first time Butch met Aairon and Elsie, he fell in love with them because of their sincerity. He saw no phony bones like some people you meet. Butch became very close to them and their children and grandson, Jalen. Union Square is not the same, especially Shelly Riggins Road. We miss you, Aairon and Elsie!
Butch and I attended a singing last Sunday night at Way of the Cross Church of God in Clanton, where Pastor Terry Hicks is overseer. This great singer Michael Combs rocked the house with his powerful singing and testimonies. It was one of the best one-man singing performances we have ever attended. If you’ve never heard Michael Combs perform, I advise you to do so; you won’t regret it! The spirit and the anointed were all over the place. God moved, and we were blessed.
Happy birthday, September babies and August 30-31 babies.
Prayer list: Trinity Hill, mother Cathy Dennis, the Riggins family, and the Taylor family.
“Serving is not serving everyone coffee; it’s serving anyone coffee.”
Call Ruby at 256-935-1330 to spread your good news.
