Mary Beth Riddles passed from this life Saturday, September 7, 2002, in Duncan Regional Hospital, at the age of sixty-nine. She was born July 10, 1033, to Edna and L.B. Vanzant, Sr., in Corum, Oklahoma. Mrs. Riddles worked for B&B Nursing Home as a nurse. She was married to Gene Ervin Riddles and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Comanche for fifty years.

Survivors include: her mother, Edna Vanzant, of Comanche, OK; her husband Gene Ervin Riddles of the home in Comanche, OK; one daughter, Colleen Elliott of Oklahoma City, OK; and two brothers - L.B. Vanzant, Jr., and Jack Vanzant.

She is preceded in death by her father L.B. Vanzant, one son, Donald Neal, in 1964, and one sister-in-law, Viola.