Earl S. Riley

Mr. Earl S. Riley, 6, (sic) South Coffeyville, Ok., a Welch native died Monday, August 16, 1993, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Mo., after being thrown from a horse at a friend's home.

Mr. Riley was born January 2, 1937, in Welch. He was a lifetime resident of the Welch-South Coffeyville area. He served in the Army in the early 1960s. He was a member of Local 165 of a labor union at Topeka, Ks., and the Occupaational Licensing Service of Oklahoma. He was a rancher and pipe fitter for Logan Construction Co., Coffeyville. He was an avid horseman.

He married Dorothy Kimball Simmons in 1968. She survives.

Additional survivors include two stepsons, Ronnie Simmons of Vinita, and Terry Simmons of Prairie Grove, Ark.; a stepdaughter, Diane Faulkner of South Coffeyville; a daughter, Rhonda Garrett of South Coffeyville; seven brothers, John of Vinita, Art of South Coffeyville, Frank, James, Wes and Dan, all of Coffeyville and Gerald of Welch; three sisters, Mae Nolte and Martha Shufelt both of South Coffeyville, and Marie Volze of Collinsville; nine grandchildren and a great grandchild.

Services were held last Friday at the Thomas Funeral Home, Welch with burial in Rogers Cemetery, northwest of Welch.