Mrs. William "Emma" (Kehn) Donley 1863-1949

KEHN, DONLEY, SCHEIBE

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 10/28/2015 at 12:13:19

Telegraph- Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, March 27, 1949

MRS. WILLIAM DONLEY

Maquoketa, Ia. - Services for Mrs. William Donley, 85, who died Friday morning at a nursing home here, will be a 2 p.m. Sunday at the OES Hall at Delmar with the Rev. Schaeffer, pastor of the Delmar Methodist Church, officiating and burial in Evergreen Cemetery at Delmar.

She was born Emma Kehn, daughter of Adam and Mary Kehn, at Delmar on Aug. 22, 1863. She was married to William Donley on Feb. 5, 1890. He died in 1926. She was a 50 year member of the OES Lodge at Delmar and for 25 years served as president of the Evergreen Cemetery Association.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. R. E. Scheibe, of Maquoketa; a son John, of Sterling Ill.; a brother, George, of Delmar; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.