Dilley, Laurence Vern (1915-2000)

DILLEY, LITTEN, FLOWERS, HILL, FRAKES, WAGGNER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/11/2015 at 16:49:41

Daily Freeman Journal, Monday, January 17, 2000

Laurence Dilley, 84, Des Moines, a former Webster City resident, died Wednesday, Jan 12, 2000 at the Iowa Lutheran Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services were Saturday at the Foster Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Kem officiating. Burial was in the Graceland Cemetery.

Laurence Vern Dilley, son of Vern and Ethel Litten Dilley, was born Oct. 3, 1915 on a farm north of Duncombe. He attended rural schools near Duncombe and also Webster City schools. He worked in various areas of farming. On July 24, 1934 he married Calva Mane Flowers at Fort Dodge. The couple resided in Webster City. He owned and operated a trucking business in the Webster City area from 1946 to 1982. He worked at the Kamrar Cooperative until 1988. They moved to Kamrar in 1989 and to Des Moines in 1993. During World War II, he served with the Army Infantry in the European Theater of Action. He received the Purple Heart, three Bronze Service Stars, WWII Victory Medal and was a POW for eight months.

Survivors are his wife, Calva, sons and daughters-in-law, Dale and Carolyn Dilley, Stanhope, Lawrence and Janice Dilley, Ellsworth, Dean Dilley, Duncombe, daughter Jane Hill of Des Moines, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, a sister, Bertha Frakes of Des Moines, brothers Clarence Dilley of Fort Wayne, IN., Harold Dilley of Richfield MN., several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, son-in-law, Marion K. Hill in 1998, daughter-in-law Carol Dilley, brothers Wilbur, Elmer, Wilfred, and Leonard Dilley, sister, Edith Waggner.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church and a 50 year member of the American Legion Post #191.