Anthol W Riney was the eldest son of John Beed & Corinne (Pierce) Riney. He married Bessie Elizabeth Christensen, June 23, 1942 in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Following service in the South Pacific during World War II as a B-24 bomber pilot, Anthol worked as the Marion County Extension Agent and later for the US State Department as an Agriculture Officer with foreign postings to Suriname, Iran, India and Turkey.