Edna G. Riley 1895-1921

RILEY, YARHAM, BILLICK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 6/14/2008 at 16:10:21

Grinnell (IA) Herald; Feb. 25, 1921

FUNERAL IN NEWTON
MRS. C.A. RILEY WAS BURIED THERE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Mrs. C.A. Riley, who took her own life Monday afternoon by drinking carbolic acid while visiting in the W.F. Sears home at Grinnell, was born in Grinnell, twenty-six years ago. For a number of years she had lived in Newton with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Yarham. Later she married C.A. Riley at Davenport, Iowa, where the couple was living. Her husband is prostrated with grief.

About a year ago sick with neuritis and since that time has been very nervous, and it is thought that she was temporarily insane when she drank the poison, for in the morning she was in her usual happy spirits.

Besides her husband, she is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Yarham, of Newton, a sister, Mrs. Richard Dunbar of Kellogg, and a brother, Ray Yarham, of Newton.

Funeral services were held from the Morgan Funeral Home Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Paul Becker, pastor of the Christian church had charge of the services. Burial was made in the Newton Union cemetery.