Obit: Riley, Iva Jean (1896 – 1965)
Email:
dinah@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Riley, Blackhall, Rayburn, Zadaraka, Fuller,
Bierly, Brackley, Congram
------ Source: Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co.,
Wis.) 02/11/1965
------ Riley, Iva Jean (17 MAY 1896 – 7 FEB 1965)
Funeral services for the Rev.
Arthur Charles Riley and his wife, Mrs. Iva Riley, were held Tuesday at the
Methodist church in Loyal.
The Rev. Mr. Riley died Friday, Feb. 5, at the
age of 81, and his wife died Sunday, Feb. 7, at the age of 69.
The Rev. Paul Doering, Loyal,
and the Rev. Herbert Thompson, La Crosse, officiated.
Burial was made in the Loyal cemetery.
The Rev. Mr. Riley, a former
pastor of the Grace Methodist church at Greenwood, was born Sept. 6, 1883, in
England.
In 1910 he came to British Columbia where he attended
Oaknotan college and later Toronto university.
Mrs. Riley, the former Iva Jean
Blackhall, was born May 17, 1896, in Ingersol, Ontario, Canada.
She received her education at Toronto
university.
Following their marriage in
1916 at Wingham, Ontario, the couple came to the United States and the Rev.
Riley accepted his first pastorate at Wauconda, Ill.
He later served in several other Illinois
pastorates before coming to Colby and Unity in 1941.
In this area the Rev. Riley
served as pastor of the Grace Methodist church at Greenwood from 1953 to 1955.
He then served at Merrilian and Arkansaw
churches before retiring when the couple moved to Unity.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Frederick (Marian)
Rayburn, Neillsville, Mrs. Fred (Muriel) Zadaraka, Moline, Ill., Mrs. Rodney
(Dorothy) Fuller, Wisconsin Rapids, and Mrs. Richard (Frances) Bierly, Peoria,
Ill; two sons, Arthur C. Riley Jr., Peoria, Ill., and the Rev. Donald R. Riley,
Livingston; 23 grand children and four great grand children, and one sister,
Rose Riley of England.
Mrs. Riley is survived by her children and two sisters,
Mrs. William (Anna) Brackley, Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, and Mrs. Wilfred
(Elsie) Congram, Wingham, Ontario, Canada, and two brothers, Clarence Blackhall,
Toronto, and Charles Blackhall, Rockford, Ill.
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