A Life: Celestine ‘Da’ Wiggins, 1929 – 2020; ‘Da was always there with a kind word’ Da Wiggins reads to Sawyer Willis, her first great-grandchild, in 2008. (Family photograph) Da and Frank Wiggins on their wedding day, Sept. 10, 1949. (Family photograph) Da and Frank Wiggins in a late 1969 photograph. (Family photograph) Modified: 1/31/2021 7:57:40 PM GUILD — In 1980, there was a knock on Da Wiggins’ front door. It was Peter Burling and he was going door-to-door campaigning for a New Hampshire Senate seat against a popular Republican. Wiggins lived down the street from the Sturm, Ruger gun plant “where I was not a popular fellow,” Burling recalled. Upon answering, Wiggins looked at the Cornish Democrat and said, “Are you crazy to be going around here? Come in here.”