RILEY H. FLEEMAN

 

   Riley H. Fleeman Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday at the Southern Baptist church, Stockton, for Riley H. Fleeman, 77 who died at the veterans hospital at Knoxville, Ia., April 2. [1969] Eld. Clyde Bough officiated, assisted by Rev. Donald Gundy. Pall bearers were members of the Trent Sallee post of the American Legion, Stockton. Interment was in Bethel cemetery near Fair Play, under direction of Long Funeral Home of Jerico Springs. Riley Hezekiah, son of Joshua and Sarah Holbert Fleeman, was born in the Bethel community southwest of Fair Play on May 22, 1891. He was united in marriage to Pearl Alena Collins in 1918. To this union a daughter, Derralee Elizabeth, was born. Survivors include the daughter Mrs. Jack Stephens, Stockton; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two brothers, Clay Fleeman, Stockton and Howard Fleeman, Carpenter, Calif.; five sisters, Ina Harville, Hayward, Calif., Emma Harville, Compton, Calif., Ruby Stinson, Cypress, Calif., Ruth Hickman and Minerva Addison, Stockton. During World War I he was drafted into the armed service and received training for overseas duty at Camp Funston, Kansas, and at Camp Pike, Ark. He became ill while at Camp Pike early in 1918, and later received a medical discharge from the Army. In the years that followed he spent much time in veterans hospitals in efforts to regain his health and he had resided at the Knoxville, Ia. hospital since June 1966.

 

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