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- Her grandson, Melvin Moore Diggs:
The Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service, the highest award of the
Department of Justice, was presented to Melvin M. Diggs in Dec., 1968 in
recognition of his outstanding service as the Court-appointed United States
Attorney for the Northern District of Texas from Feb. 23, 1965 through June
30, 1968.
Diggs also served as the first Assistant to four different U.S. Attorneys
during his years with the office. Born in Trenton, Fannin C., TX., he
attended Weslaco High School near McAllen, where he was calss salutatorian,
yearbook editor, senior class president, trombone soloist, and lettered in
five sports.
As a sophomore end on the football team at Texas Christian University, Diggs
caught the first varsity pass thrown by the famed Slingin Sammy Baugh - but
broke an ankle on the touchdown catch and missed the remainder of the 1934
season. Although not a starter after his injury, Diggs earned three football
letters on outstanding Horned Frog teams. Diggs worked his way through TCU
with two jobs and still found time to serve both as president of the senior
class and at the same time president of the student body. He also worked his
way through Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C. with a job at the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
He was admitted to the Texas Bar in `944. After serving in the Army
Counterintelligence Corps during World War II. Diggs handled legal duties with
the Office of Price Administration, the Veterans Administration, and the
Federal Housing Expeditor. He also was a civilian special investigator for
the Air Force and Supervised 50 criminal investigators at 8 air bases in
Texas, before beginning his longtime service with the U.S. Attorney's Office
by joining the staff of U.S. Attorney Heard Floore as an Assistant.
After his retirement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Diggs accepted an
assignment to handle during 1975-80 the implementation in the Northern
District of Texas of the "Speddy Trial Act".
He and his wife, Virginia, have three daughters, Susan, Nancy, and Ann, and a
son, Douglas.
The Diggs family has long attended the University Christian church, and he has
credited "going to a Christian School" as molding his whoe life.
(Geenwood Funeral Home, Ft.Worth, TX.)
Submitted by Deanne Barker, grand daughter of Lena Leona Prater, a sister to
Mollie Prater. (1997)
Deanne & Mike Barker 2832 Bois d Arc Commerce, TX. 75428
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