Rita (Coleman) Riley, wife of Francis C. Riley (1915-2004) and mother to Stephen F. Riley, was born in Pawtucket on this day in 1917. Her parents, Martin F. Colemen and Mary Anne Kenney, both emigrated from Ireland, making Rita a “1st Generation American.”

Recently, Rita’s Pawtucket High School graduation picture was published and it is included here.

Here is another photo which shows Rita with her husband Francis along with her various brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.