Riley, Ransom (1895-1932)

RILEY, SCHMIDT, SCHWEPPE, VULGAMOTT, ADAMS, YOUNG

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/28/2017 at 15:31:51

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Monday, May 23, 1932

RANSOM RILEY DIES SUDDENLY

Funeral Services to Be Held at Stanhope Church Tomorrow

WAS WIDELY KNOWN

Ransom H. Riley, 36, widely known young farmer in the Stanhope community, died suddenly at his home northeast of Stanhope, yesterday morning at 4:30 o'clock. Death was caused by a pulmonary hemorrhage.

Mr. Riley had been in his usual good health and had spent all day Saturday planting corn. Saturday evening the family had come to Webster City, returning to their home rather late. Mr. Riley went to bed about 1 o'clock.

Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning, Mrs. Riley heard him coughing and later on she heard him go downstairs. A few minutes later he called her and when she reached him he was dead.

Funeral services have been arranged for tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home two and three-fourths miles northeast of Stanhope, and at 2 o'clock at the Church of Christ in Stanhope, the Rev. C.F. Schmidt officiating. Burial will be made in Lawn Hill cemetery in Stanhope. Foster's in charge.

Mr. Riley was born Sept. 28, 1896 [headstone says 1895] on the farm where he died. He attended high school and later college in Toledo, and was married in 1922 to Miss Pearl Schmidt, of Kamrar.

He is survived by his wife and a little daughter, Nilva Jean, 8; his mother, Mrs. Mary Riley; and four sisters, Mrs. George Schweppe, of Kamrar; Mrs. James Vulgamott, of Webster City; Mrs. Ethel Adams of Mason City, and Mrs. Edward Young of Stanhope. One brother, Raymond, died in 1921. His father died in 1923.