Extracted from The Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
Wednesday, June 8, 1955

RILEY, Callie J., age 78, of West Blocton, passed away in a Birmingham hospital Tuesday p.m.

Survived by his wife, Mrs. Dicie Anne Champion Riley; 4 daughters, Mrs. Roy King, of Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Manley W. Griffin and Mrs. K. B. Propst, both of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Mrs. Dennis B. Butran [sic Burtram], of West Blocton; 3 sons, Percy Riley, of Birmingham; J. L. Riley, of Tuscaloosa; C. J. Riley, Jr., of Aberdeen, Md.; 14 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; 1 brother; 4 sisters.

Funeral services Thursday at 2 p.m. from West Blocton First Baptist Church, interment Memorial Park Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

The body will lie in state at the church from 1 until 2 p.m. Collins Funeral Home, West Blocton, directing.