
1929 - 2003 (74 years)
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Name |
Nancy Rebecca Mills |
Birth |
12 Jun 1929 |
Decatur,,Macon County,Illinois,USA |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
27 Jul 2003 |
Urbana,,Champaign County,Illinois,USA |
- Champaign Urbana News Gazette 31 July 2003 pg B-4
Nancy Riley
Urbana – Nancy Rebecca Mills Riley, 74, of Urbana died Sunday (July 27, 2003) at Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana.
Memorial services will be at a later date. Mittendorf-Calvert Funeral Home, 2400 Galen Dr., C. is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Riley was born June 12, 1929, in Decatur, a daughter of Walker Hill Mills and Rebecca Munro McCredie Mills. She married Robert Bartlett Riley on Oct. 5, 1956 in Sedgeford, Norfolk, England. He survives.
Also surviving are her step-mother, Irene Mills of Decatur; a daughter, Rebecca Mills, a son, Kimber Bartlett of Fort Collins, Colo.; a brother David Kimber Mills of Louisville, Ky.; and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Riley attended Decatur schools and National College of Education. She graduated from Knox College in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree and taught elementary school in several states and overseas.
She attended the University of Illinois and received her law degree from the University of New Mexico in 1973. Mrs. Riley was an estate tax attorney for the Internal Revenue Service and taught law at Parkland College. She retired in 1984.
She was active in the Unitarian Church of Urbana, National Organization of Women and A Woman’s Place. Mrs. Riley served as chair of the Urbana Human Relations commission.
Memorials may be made to the National Parkinson’s Foundation or the National Organization for Women Foundation.”
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Record Created |
29 Jun 2022 |
Cremation |
- findagrave memorial #206975723
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Notes |
- In 1962 she is wife of Robert Riley and they live in Tacoma Park, MD
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Person ID |
4447382 |
robsgenealogy |
Last Modified |
25 Dec 2024 |
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 | Birth - 12 Jun 1929 - Decatur,,Macon County,Illinois,USA |
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 | Death - 27 Jul 2003 - Urbana,,Champaign County,Illinois,USA |
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