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Rev. Lester Foster Franklin Riley | Visitation:
Thursday, September 4, 2008
4:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home
420 South State Street
North Vernon, IN 47265
Visitation:
Friday, September 5, 2008
10:00 AM until 11:00 AM
Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home
420 South State Street
North Vernon, IN 47265
Service:
Friday, September 5, 2008
11:00 AM
Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home
420 South State Street
North Vernon, IN 47265
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| | | Rev. Lester Foster Franklin Riley, 87, of North Vernon died Tuesday September 2, 2008, at St. Vincent Jennings Hospital in North Vernon.
Rev. Riley had been a minister in the Old Regular Baptist Church for 50 years. He was employed as a courier for the Indiana State Highway Department for 14 years, McCormack Lumber Company in Franklin, Moir Lumber Company in North Vernon for six years, Pennsylvania Railroad in Cincinnati, Caudill Lumber Company in Ermine, Kentucky, and had been a route driver for Butler Dairy in North Vernon. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, being discharged in 1945.
He was a member of North Vernon Veterans of Foreign Wars Matt Hester Post 2021, Blind Veterans Association, Valley Home Regular Baptist Church in Kurtz, and a lifetime member of Disabled American Veterans. He enjoyed sharing photographs, playing euchre and making pictures from copper. He loved his church and being on his front porch with his family.
The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, September 5, at Dove-Sharp & Rudicel Funeral Home in North Vernon with the Revs. Eugene Day, Arnold Bates and Darrell Stidham officiating Calling is from 4:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday and after 10:00 a.m. Friday. Burial will be at Valley Home Cemetery in Jackson County with military graveside honors by North Vernon Veterans of Foreign Wars Matt Hester Post 2021.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to North Vernon Veterans of Foreign Wars Matt Hester Post 2021.
Born January 24, 1921, in Independence, Kentucky, Rev. Riley was the son of Grafty Lee and Cordelia Gertrude Tungate Riley. He married Jackie Stallard on August 7, 1947, in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Surviving with his wife are a son, Jeffrey Foster (Teresa) Riley of North Vernon; three daughters, Theresa (Freole) Gabaree of Salem, Valera (Jerry) Schafer of Madison and Peggy (Donnie) Wilson of North Vernon; a son-in-law, Mike Murrell of North Vernon; eleven grandchildren, Justin Cline, Robbie Madden, Lakeisha Madden, Christopher (Amy) Wilson and Leslie Wilson of North Vernon, Lindsay (Brandon) Harrison of Salem, Jennifer (Ron) Hill and Brian (Julie) Schafer of Indianapolis, Malisa (Mark) Higdon of Charlestown, Kristen (Paul) Panning of Noblesville and Chastidy (Michael) Harvey of Madison; and eleven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Kathy Laura Murrell; three brothers, Gilbert, G. W. and Charles Allen Riley; and seven sisters, Goldie Roberts, Velma Gressik, Marie Hutchinson, Jeanie Webb, Myrtle Riley, Louise Sneed and Pearl Olson.
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