Fourth grade student & Bombing survivor
- Born:
- May 14, 1915 in Weidman, Isabella County, Michigan
- Died:
- April, 1933 in Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio
[ struck by automobile while riding bicycle ] - Parents:
- George Louis Riker (3/__/1864-__/__/____)
Ida M. (Atwell Riker) Vaughn (8/__/1876-12/19/1945)
[ married ≈1893; divorced ≈1919 ] - Step-Parent:
- William Vaughn ( -1932)
[ married June 22, 1920 ] - Siblings:
- Earl L. Riker (8/4/1894-1/19/1967),
Viola Riker (8/6/1896-7/6/1898)
Howard E. Riker (4/__/1898-__/__/1937),
Walter Riker (9/29/1901-10/__/1981),
George Louis "Louie" Riker (5/9/1904-2/12/1997)
Edna Hazel (Riker) Lutz (2/1/1912-9/__/1986)
Othal Norton "Odie" Riker (his twin; 5/14/1915-6/7/1977)
Edith Helen (Vaughn) Heintz (half-sister; 5/28/1922-1/29/2008) - Information of Note:
- Following his mother's divorce from his father he went to live
with older brother Earl in Bath while twin brother Othal went to live with
older brother Walter in Toledo, Ohio. While visiting his brothers he died.
Thanks to Oral's niece Judith Gager for supplying the family photographs seen below and the detailed biographical information about her family.
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Oral & Othal Riker as infants in 1915
Othal & Oral Riker with sister Edna, circa 1919
Othal & Oral Riker on their bicycles, late 1920s to early 1930s
Newspaper clipping from (presumably) the Toledo Blade detailing the accident that took Oral's life
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Othal Riker, late 1930s to early 1940s
Note that they didn't worry about smoking around gas pumps back then!
The surviving Riker siblings, circa 1965 or 1966
(back row) Othal & Louie. (front row) Walter, Edna & Earl
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