Whaley, Dora May (Taylor) (1882-1952

WHALEY, LEOPOLD, TAYLOR, HAMMITT, CHRISTIANSON, NASH, ATKINS

Posted By: Janelle Martin (email)
Date: 4/16/2014 at 17:35:22

Daily Freeman Journal, October 23, 1952, p. 2
(Webster City, Hamilton County, IA)

Mrs. Henry Whaley, 70, longtime Stanhope resident, died at 7 o’clock last night at the Hamilton county hospital where she had been a patient since last Friday. She had been in failing health several months but more seriously ill the past two weeks.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Savior’s Lutheran church in Stanhope, preceded by a brief service at 1 o’clock at the Foster funeral home in Webster City. The Rev. Walter E. Carlson of Stanhope will officiate and burial will be made on the family lot in the Saratoga cemetery.

Dora May Taylor, daughter of Frank and Carrie Taylor was born May 31, 1882 in Allamakee county, Iowa. When she was six years old, she moved with her parents to Hamilton county, locating at Webster City. She was educated and reared in this community.

Dec. 23, 1900, she was united in marriage to Thomas Henry Whaley. They farmed near Webster City for awhile before moving to a farm south of Stanhope where they resided for 27 years. They then retired and moved into Stanhope, their family home since.

She was preceded in death by her husband who died Nov. 16, 1947; by one daughter, Bernice, who died at the age of 5; one son, Everett, who died at the age of 19; by her parents, two brothers and one sister.

Mrs. Whaley is survived by one son and four daughters; Herbert E. Whaley of Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. Bruce (Esther) Hammitt of St. Paul; Mrs. Palmer (Evelyn) Christianson of Ames; Mrs. June Nash of Ames and Mrs. David (Eleanor) Atkins of Cedar Rapids; by nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one brother, George Taylor of Vernon, B.C., Canada and a half brother, Albert Leopold of Des Plaines, Ill.

She was baptized in the Lutheran faith and was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran church in Stanhope. She was very active in the Ladies Aid of the church and was a member of the Stanhope Royal Neighbors.

Mrs. Whaley was a loving wife and mother, whose church and family were always her main interests in life.