Born July 10, 1914, in Irvington, N.J., a daughter of Henry and Matilda Barkman Curtis, she moved to Brushton with her family at age 7. She graduated from Brushton High School in 1931 and from Potsdam Normal School in 1936.

She married Robert F. Riordan on March 27, 1937, at the Stone Mills Methodist Parsonage with Rev. William Fuller officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Riordan lived in Antwerp, Evans Mills, Richmond, Vt., and Cincinnatus before purchasing their current home on the Fox Rd. in 1946. Mr. Riordan, a retired plant manager for the Borden Research Facility in Syracuse, died Aug. 16 at their home.

Mrs. Riordan was a member of the Evans Mills United Methodist Church. A life member of the Pisgah Lodge# 164, Evans Mills, Order of the Eastern Star, and the Perch River Home Bureau.

She enjoyed traveling, cooking, entertaining, sewing, reading, doing crossword puzzles, playing cards and spending time at the family camp on Bob’s Lake in Ontario, Canada.

Surviving are two sons and a daughter-in-law, Robert Jr., Watertown, David and Karen, Adams; a daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn and Charles Covell, Calcium; six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

A son-in-law, Roger W. Taylor, three sisters, Eunice Van Ess, Ruth Winters and Esther Earle, and a brother Henry Curtis Jr., all died before her.

The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Evans Mills United Methodist Church with Rev. Penni Farrington officiating. Burial will be later in the spring at the Parrish Road Cemetery, Town of Pamelia. Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Reed & Benoit Funeral Home, Watertown.