Services for Roger Risley, 89, Indianapolis, will be tomorrow in Robert W. Stirling Funeral Home.
Risley, who died Monday in a Shelbyville nursing home, retired in 1963 after working nearly five years as a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service.
He formerly worked 30 years for Borden Milk Co.
Risley was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church and was a former high priest of Royal Arch Mason Broad Ripple Chapter. He was a 50-year member and past master of Pleasant Masonic Lodge 134 at Acton.
He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agriculture in 1913 and was superintendent of a farm school at Sorsogon, Luzon, in the Philippines from 1913 to 1916.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; daughters, Helen Lee, Patricia Alloway, Eloise Maner; sons James, Richard, and Joseph.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Wed., July 11, 1979.
Married Ruby Messersmith in Manila, Philippine Islands on Sept. 2, 1916.
Risley, who died Monday in a Shelbyville nursing home, retired in 1963 after working nearly five years as a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service.
He formerly worked 30 years for Borden Milk Co.
Risley was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church and was a former high priest of Royal Arch Mason Broad Ripple Chapter. He was a 50-year member and past master of Pleasant Masonic Lodge 134 at Acton.
He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agriculture in 1913 and was superintendent of a farm school at Sorsogon, Luzon, in the Philippines from 1913 to 1916.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; daughters, Helen Lee, Patricia Alloway, Eloise Maner; sons James, Richard, and Joseph.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Wed., July 11, 1979.
Married Ruby Messersmith in Manila, Philippine Islands on Sept. 2, 1916.
Services for Roger Risley, 89, Indianapolis, will be tomorrow in Robert W. Stirling Funeral Home.
Risley, who died Monday in a Shelbyville nursing home, retired in 1963 after working nearly five years as a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service.
He formerly worked 30 years for Borden Milk Co.
Risley was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church and was a former high priest of Royal Arch Mason Broad Ripple Chapter. He was a 50-year member and past master of Pleasant Masonic Lodge 134 at Acton.
He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agriculture in 1913 and was superintendent of a farm school at Sorsogon, Luzon, in the Philippines from 1913 to 1916.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; daughters, Helen Lee, Patricia Alloway, Eloise Maner; sons James, Richard, and Joseph.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Wed., July 11, 1979.
Married Ruby Messersmith in Manila, Philippine Islands on Sept. 2, 1916.
Risley, who died Monday in a Shelbyville nursing home, retired in 1963 after working nearly five years as a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service.
He formerly worked 30 years for Borden Milk Co.
Risley was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church and was a former high priest of Royal Arch Mason Broad Ripple Chapter. He was a 50-year member and past master of Pleasant Masonic Lodge 134 at Acton.
He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agriculture in 1913 and was superintendent of a farm school at Sorsogon, Luzon, in the Philippines from 1913 to 1916.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; daughters, Helen Lee, Patricia Alloway, Eloise Maner; sons James, Richard, and Joseph.
Published in The Indianapolis News, Wed., July 11, 1979.
Married Ruby Messersmith in Manila, Philippine Islands on Sept. 2, 1916.
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