EARLENE RILEY

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Earlene Riley of East Prairie will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church. George White will officiate. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.

Friends may call at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie after 5 p.m. Friday.

Riley, 83, died Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

She was born Dec. 29, 1915, at Crosno, daughter of William and Dura Duty Nolen. She and James Clifton Riley were married May 9, 1932. He died Sept. 26, 1988.

Riley and her husband lived and farmed in the Deventer community, moving to East Prairie in 1983.

Survivors include six sons, Ray Riley of Troy, Ill., Ronnie Riley of Anniston, Alvin Riley of Provo, Utah, Russell Riley of Savannah, Tenn., Dennis and Melvin Riley of Salt Lake City, Utah; seven daughters, Alice Thurstin of Lexington, S.C., Doris Smith of Owensville, Faye Gosche of Kelso, Sue Chatman and Jeanette Adkisson of East Prairie, Joyce Poole of Minneapolis, Minn., and Sally Baron of Winfield, Ill.

Also surviving are five sisters, Modest Grider of Benton, Ky., Lillian Cowser of Charleston, Bernice Culp of East Prairie, Beatrice Doorack and Ruth Scott of St. Louis; a brother, Earl Nolen of Anniston; 28 grandchildren; and 34 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two grandsons, three sisters, and five brothers.