MILDRED MYRNE (WILSON) WOOLEY (1899 - 1989

WOOLEY, WILSON, LUDVIGSON, RUSSELL, MARTIN

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 5/8/2020 at 06:14:14

Nampa, Idaho - Funeral services for Mildred Myrne Wooley, 89, OF Nampa, Idaho, were Tuesday at the Alsip Funeral Chapel, Nampa, with the Rev. Vernon L. Wilcox officiating. She died Thursday, Nov. 16, at a Nampa care center.

Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee.

She was born Nov. 21, 1899, at Albion, Neb., to Alexander T. and Mary A. Wilson. At a young age she moved with her family to Payette where she was reared and attended school. She graduated from Payette High School in 1918. She then moved back to Albion where she learned photography from her uncle who was in business there. She later went to work in Cherokee.

She married Charles M. Wooley in 1923. During World War II she worked at the Sears Department Store and retired after her husband died in 1958. In 1970 she moved to Nampa where she had many relatives.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Ludvigson of Little Rock, Ark., and Mrs. Waneta Russell, Prescott, Ariz.; one sister, Mrs. Della B. Martin, Seal Rock, Ore.; 10 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, three brothers and one sister.

The family suggests memorial contributions to the Campus Crusade for Christ Family Ministry, Little Rock, Ark., 72211.

Source: Cherokee County Historical Society Scrapbook. Obituary dated 11-24-1989.