Elizabeth J. Briar, 103, of West Lafayette, died Monday, April 23, 2007, at Westminster Health Care.
Born Jan. 21, 1904, to the late George W. and Louise Sewell Holder near Otterbein, she was a 1922 graduate of Otterbein High School and attended McMurry College in Jacksonville, Ill.
She married Mark R. Briar on Feb. 3, 1923, in Danville, Ill., and he died July 8, 1973.
Mrs. Briar and her husband owned a restaurant in Otterbein from 1927 to 1952. She had also lived in Sarasota, Fla., for 10 years.
She was a member of Otterbein Methodist Church and the Lafayette Daughters of the American Revolution. She enjoyed traveling.
Surviving are two daughters, Carolyn L. Rowe and Mary Pflug.
Published Journal & Courier, Lafayette, IN