Charles W. Chuck Riley, Class of 1965, retired to Ravenswood because his wife, Linda Long Riley, had family there.

So that’s where Chuck and Linda, the Grant Town girl he married in 1967, moved last year.

They had been living in Worthington.

They have three children: Rhonda, Mike and Jason Riley.

Chuck worked at Owens Illinois Glass in 1965-68, several coal mines  including 20 years at Martina mine. Then he was employed at Middletown Mall in Fairmont until he finally retired.

Chuck and Linda also have 4 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and 3 stepgrandchildren.

Their son, Jason, is a widower of Jamie Feltz Riley. It was Linda’s Facebook post about her daughter-in-law that tipped me off about Jamie’s passing in 2014 before I wrote a Monongah High Alumni blog tribute article about the sad event for a remarkable Monongah family.

Jamie’s parents are Betty Wilson Feltz and the late, great Monongah High coach Jim Feltz, who guided the 1952 and 1955 football teams to state high school titles.

Jim’s son, Jay Riley, was quarterback of the 1973 Monongah High state championship football team and West Virginia Athlete of the Year in 1973. So the Feltz family had a hand in 3 of the 5 Lions state titles. The others came in 1968 and 1969 when the late Earl Kenner was Monongah High's coach.

The Feltz and Olesky families, living 4 houses from each other, have been friends who helped each other during times of crisis for about 70 years.

There’s another Rhonda Riley who married Larry Wilson.

This Rhonda explains:

“We are not related although his mother was my Sunday School teacher and Chuck has a daughter with the same exact name as mine. I used to get birthday cards in the mail addressed to Rhonda,” Chuck’s daughter.

Living the life of Riley can be anything but a revoltin’ development, a famous and frequent quote used frequently by 1944-51 “Life of Riley” TV series star William Bendix, who played a Brooklyn cab driver.

But it can be confusing to keep the Rileys really straight.