[2] Griggs entered the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and took her vows on February 5, 1943, which was her 23rd birthday.
[5] In 1976, Griggs was appointed to a committee to select the recipient of the Portland Board of Education's McPherson Memorial Award for Interracial Understanding, which was given to Creston Elementary School.
[1] She joined a commission to restore federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, which she and her family were members.
[1] Griggs died on January 7, 2012, at the Marie-Rose Center at Mary's Woods in Lake Oswego, Oregon, at the age of 91.
[1] Her Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Mary's Woods Provincial House Chapel in Lake Oswego and she was buried in a family plot on the Siletz Indian reservation.