Julietta "Judy" Leona Riley 1926 - 2014
RILEY JACOBS WACHELDORF
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/26/2014 at 18:54:40
Mapleton Press
22 May 2014Julietta "Judy" Leona Riley was born on July 8, 1926, in Mapleton, the daughter of Emil and Leona (Jacobs) Wacheldorf. A lifelong resident, she attended school in Mapleton. She married her high school sweetheart, Morris Riley on July 18, 1948, at the United Church of Christ in Mapleton. They were expecting their first child when he was called to the military.
Judy loved staying at home to raise her eight children and treasured watching them grow and start families of their own. She worked as a waitress at a variety of restaurants and helped out her sister by tending bar for her at Thiel's Recreation. She also worked for a while at IBP.
Judy was very gifted with the crochet hooks and spent many hours crocheting making blankets and afghans for her loved ones. She enjoyed spending time outdoors. She loved watching NASCAR, especially Dale Earnhart. She also loved any type of baseball with the Chicago Cubs being her favorite team. She was a member of the United Church of Christ of Mapleton.
Left to treasure their memories of Judy were her eight children, Michael and his wife, Lois of Mapleton, Larry and his wife, Helen of Yukon, OK, Barbara and her husband, Roger Bainbridge of Smithland, Connie and her husband, Gary Teel of Whiting, Sandra and her husband, Tim Burke of Mapleton, Debra Spiegel of Mapleton, Kevin and his wife, June of Mapleton, and Mark and his wife, Tina of Onawa; 20 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren with two more on the way; a brother and his wife, Richard and Sherri Wacheldorf; and two sisters, Norma Marsh and Phyllis Reinbold.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Morris A. Riley; her parents, Emil and Leona Wacheldorf; her son-in-law, Richard Spiegel; her grandson, Cory Riley; a sister, Delores "Tootie" Thiel; and three brothers, Elmer, Leonard, and Bob Wacheldorf.
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