Charles Biggs death notice

Charles (Charley) Rogers Biggs, longtime owner and publisher of the Tulsa Beacon, died August 29, 2022. He was 68.

Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the First Baptist Church, 100 West Albany Street, Broken Arrow.

Biggs was born November 16, 1953. He met his wife, Susan, in 1981 and married her in July 1982. 

Biggs worked at the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Bixby Bulletin and Tulsa World, where he started the newspaper’s zoned editions, before launching the Glenpool Post, which he later sold. 

In 2001, he started the conservative, Christian-oriented newspaper, the Tulsa Beacon.

Biggs is survived by his wife, Susan; sons Brian and Josiah Biggs; daughter Sara Berg; brother Jonathan Biggs; and two grandchildren.