Mary Agnes Riley

Mary Agnes Tyler, daughter of James Howell and Nora Florence Sullivan Tyler, was born March 2, 1918 at Harthorn, Missouri and passed away at the Kabul Nursing Home, July, 23, 2016 making her age 98 years 4 months 21 days.

Agnes was united in marriage to Lewis Esco Riley on January 9, 1939 at Houston MO. To their union, six children were born: Joyce, Mary, Glenn Faye, Michael and Stephen. Esco preceded her in death on June 12, 2009.

Agnes attended rural schools and graduated 8th grade at Black Valley Elementary in Shannon County, MO. She was saved, baptized and joined the Macadonia Baptist Church as a young girl. That church later became Valley Center Baptist Church at Hartshorn where she attended as long as her health permitted. Most of her life was spent in the Hartshorn area. Esco and Agnes bought a farm near Round Valley School in 1945. This is where they raised their family.

Agnes was a great cook, seamstress, loved gardening, canning, making jelly, apple butter and planting flowers. She made so many quilts that she lost count. She delivered babies, sat with the ill or the dying and helped where ever she could. Agnes went to work at the Angelica Uniform Company in Summersville on February 18th, 1953 and retired from there on February 29, 1980. Esco retired the same year. They both loved fishing and after retirement they spent many hours on the banks of Current River and in their boat on the lakes.

Preceding her in death are her husband Esco, her father and mother, son Michael, daughter Joyce, grandson Rick, 5 brothers, Everett, James, Benny, Bob and Charles Tyler, 2 sisters Maggie Tyler and Edith Mathis, two lifelong friends that she missed very much, Edith Brim Michel and Elsie Michel Green.

Surviving are sons Glenn (Jean) of Hartshorn, MO and Stephen (April) of Angier, NC, daughters Mary Kirkman (Bob), Independence, MO, and Faye Hartman (Roger) of Batesville, MS; grandsons Randy Dale, Scott Kirkman, Michael Riley, Brad Riley, Gary Hartman, and Nathaniel Riley; granddaughters, Cindy Rubino, Carrie Briggs, Christina Hall, Angela Acklin, Jessica Clark, Stephanie Doherty, and Frances Riley; eighteen great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren, two brothers in law, Dredward Riley of Independence, MO and John Riley of East Peoria, IL, 4 sisters in law, Norma, Evelyn, Judy and Kathy, 16 nieces and nephews, special friend Audrey Wilson and a host of relatives and friends.