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Submitted: 8/18/21 • Approved: 8/19/21 • Last Updated: 8/22/21 • R448371-G0-S3
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS US Army
World War II
January 12, 1918-February 28, 1998
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Jim E. Riley, 80, died Saturday, Feb. 28, 1998.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel with John P. Jones of Wichita Fall officiating. Burial will be in Vesperland Garden at Highland Park Cemetery.
Mr. Riley was a native of Wichita Falls. He was a World War II veteran of the Army. He was an independent pumper and a minister at Borger Missionary Baptist Church.
He married Dollie Friend in 1937 at Graham.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Billy Riley of Fritch and Eddie Riley of Los Angeles; a daughter, Shirley P. Creacy of Fritch; a sister, Pearl Merrick of Upperlake, Calif.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family will be at 3034 Santa Fe Trail in Fritch.
Visitation will be at the funeral home in Borger.
(Published by Amarillo Online Newspapers 2 March 1998)
Contributed on 8/18/21
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