Elizabeth W. Riley

Published 9:33 am Friday, April 17, 2015

Funeral services for Elizabeth W. Riley will be 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2015 at in the Cool Springs M. B. Church with the Rev. Byron Maxwell officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

A visitation hour will be from 6 to 7 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Riley died Saturday, April 11, 2015, at Merit Health River Region Medical Center. She was 69  She was retired from GNB Battery Corp. and was a member of the Cool Springs M. B. Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Tommy and Emma Curry Williams; husband, Percy Riley; son, Gregory Hugh Riley; and sisters, Betty Williams, Sylvia Collins and Shirley Williams.

Survivors include her stepson, Lawrence Harris of Vicksburg; three brothers, J C Williams of Detroit, Eddie Williams of Utica and Arthur James Fountain of Gary, Ind.; five sisters Julia Dunbar, Georgia Donerson and Linda Conner, all of Vicksburg, Doris Brown of Merrillville, Ind., and Ruby Smith of Baltimore; stepmother, Marie Williams of Vicksburg; six grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.