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- EDWARD L. RILEY, RETIRED PAPERMAKER, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - September 4, 1990Browse Issues
Edward L. Riley, 69, of 42 N. Jefferson St., West Carthage, died Saturday afternoon at his summer cottage on Pleasant Lake, Town of Champion.
There will be no funeral or calling hours. The body was cremated. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
Arrangements were with the McGraw Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to Hospice of Jefferson County Inc.
Surviving are his wife, Gertrude M.; two sons, James F. and Randy L., both of Carthage; two daughters, Mrs. Janet M. Balser and Mrs. Patricia A. Zehr, both of Havana, Ark.; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ella and Edna Schermerhorn, both of Carthage; a brother, William, address unknown; a half-brother, Carlton Bartell, Carthage, and several nieces and nephews.
A brother, George, and two half-brothers, Charles and Arthur Bartell, died before him.
Born April 18, 1921, in West Carthage, son of Darwin F. and Nellie S. Allen Riley, he attended Carthage area schools and married Gertrude Mary Disotell July 11, 1942, in the Carthage United Methodist Church, with the Rev. William K. Bradshaw officiating.
Mr. Riley served with the Army during World War II, from June 1943 to August 1945.
He worked for the former Crown Zellerbach Corp. for 36 years, retiring as shift supervisor in June 1976. He also owned and operated Riley's Dairy Bar in West Carthage from 1968 to 1984.
He and his wife spent summers at the cottage on Pleasant Lake.
Mr. Riley was a member of the Disabled American Veterans of Carthage and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7227. He was one of the original founders and a past president of the Carthage Area Rescue Squad, and was a former assistant chief of the West Carthage Fire Department.
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1921 - 1990 (68 years)