Lawrence Riley was an iron man. The 66-year-old Milwaukee resident was a U.S. Navy veteran, a retired firefighter and had survived two strokes. His family thought he could beat anything.
Whitley Riley, the youngest and only daughter in the family, similarly described her father as giving.Just a year shy of graduating, she had taken extra classes to graduate early so that her dad didn't have to wait until 2022 to see her in a cap and gown.
The 19-year-old Prairie View A&M University student said she's on still track to graduate in 2021, but her father won't be able to be there.Lawrence Riley tested positive, March 17, 2020. Two days later, he died in Milwaukee.It isn't the only milestone her father will miss.She and her brother hope their dad's story will serve as a message to others to take the disease seriously. If not for yourself, then for others.
"We need to do everything we can to protect one another. Just because someone the same age as me might not feel the symptoms doesn't mean you can't pass it along," Riley said."It took my father just like that. I never thought in a million years my dad would be gone in five days."
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