Mr. Robert C. Reilly , 79, retiree of the Phillips Petroleum Company and a resident of Bartlesville since 1950, died at 7:05 a.m. on Monday in the Montereau Health Center, Tulsa, Okla.

The Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday in the St. John Catholic Church. Father Festus Maliwa will be the celebrant.

A Rosary will be said at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday in the St. John Catholic Church. Dedication of the grave, committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Memorial Park Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Bob Reilly will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence where friends may call for visitation until he is removed to the church for final rites.

A native of Crawford County Kansas, Robert Carl Reilly  was born October 5, 1924 at Pittsburg. He was the son of the late Joseph and Mary Edna (McCormick) Reilly He was reared at Pittsburg and completed his education there. He was graduated from St. Mary's High School, Pittsburg, Kansas with the Senior Class of 1941. Mr. Reilly enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and served under General George Patton as Radio Operator for the 3rd. Army. He was honorably discharged in 1946 and returned to this area. He and the former Miss Cora Margaret "Peggy" Komac were united in marriage on December 28, 1946, at Frontenac, Kansas. They established their home at Pittsburg and Robert Reilly continued his education at Kansas State University. He was graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. They came to Bartlesville in June of 1950 and he began his career with Phillips Petroleum Company in the Engineering Department. They were transferred to Borger, Texas with the Pipeline Department prior to their residence in LaJunta, Colorado. They returned to Bartlesville with Supply and Transportation and rejoined the Phillips Pipeline Department and moved to Wichita, Kansas. They returned to Bartlesville and he was retired in l985 from the Pipeline Department. They remained residents here until March of this year when they moved to Tulsa. Bob Reilly was a member of St. John Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and the Adams Municipal Golf Course.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Cora Margaret "Peg" Reilly of the home; five sons, Patrick Robert Reilly and his wife, Jill, Maize, Kansas, Joseph Matthew Reilly and his wife, Lynn, Wichita, Kansas, Robert James Reilly and his wife, Twyla, Hutchison, Kansas, Richard Edward Reilly and his wife, Janet, Bartlesville, and Edward Michael Reilly , Portland, Oregon; a daughter, Mrs. Linda Suzanne Cottom and her husband, David, Owasso, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren; two step grandchildren; three great grand children and a step great grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother, three brothers, Arthur, Joseph and James Reilly , and by a sister, Margaret Anne Reilly .

A memorial to the American Alzheimer's Association has been established, and those who wish may forward their gifts to the Oklahoma Chapter, American Alzheimer's Assoc., 6465 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74136.