Faidley, Wanda (Bollhoefer) (1921-1978)

FAIDLEY, BOLLHOEFER, HARRINGTON, REYNOLDS, HINTHORNE

Posted By: Sherry Faidley Healy (email)
Date: 9/5/2006 at 21:21:57

Wanda Faidley, Well-Known Newton School Teacher, Dies

Funeral services for Mrs. Lloyd (Wanda) Faidley, 57, of Newton, a longtime resident of Newton and well-known teacher in the Newton Community Schools, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church in Newton.

The Rev. William Sexton, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Newton Union Cemetery. Friends may call at the Johnson-Reese Funeral Home after 10 a.m. today.

Memorial contributions to the Jasper County Historical Society will be accepted.

Mrs. Faidley, who currently was an instructor at Aurora Heights Elementary School, had taught in the Newton Community Schools for a number of years.

Survivors are her husband; a daughter, Marla, at home; a son, David of Minneapolis, Minn; and her mother Mrs. Martha Bollhoefer of Marshalltown.

Also survivng are three sisters, Mrs. Lloyd (Marie) Harrington of Melbourne, Mrs. Glenn (Norma) Reynolds of Sioux City; and Mrs. Ira (Laura) Hinthorne of Bellevue, Wash.; and two brothers Herman Bollhoefer and Arnold Bollhoefer, both of Haverhill.

She was proceded in death by her father and a brother David.

The daughter of Edward and Martha Bollhoefer, she was born, Nov. 7, 1921 in Marshall County, was educated in Van Cleve Consolidated Schools and completed a one - year Rural Program at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls in 1939.

Following her year at UNI she taught rural schools for 2 years in Marshall County before returning to college to complete her bachelor of arts degree in elementary education.

Mrs. Faidley was graduated from UNI with honors, receiving the Purple and Gold Award for metitorius scholarship in elementary education and being invited to membership in Kappa Delta Pi, Beta Beta Beta and Gamma Theta Upsilon, national honorary education, biology and geography fraternities respectively.

She taught for a number of years at Northwood and at Cedar Rapids before her marriage in 1949 to Lloyd Faidley of Colfax and Newton communities, presently an employee of the Maytag Company.

The Faidleys moved to Newton where Mrs. Faidley entered teaching in the Newton Schools.

Mrs. Faidley who was active in education in addition to her classroom duties, served as vice president and president of the Newton Teachers’ Association, was active in curriculum developement projects in both science and social studies.

Mrs. Faidley continued her education by receiving her master of arts degree at Drake University in Des Moines and was invited to membership in Zeta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an honorary society for key women teachers.

Mrs. Faidley, state chairman of the Committee on Professional Affairs at the time of her death, was currently a member of the Newton Education Association, the National Education Association, the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Jasper County Genealogical Society, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the First Presbyterian Church in Newton.

Mrs. Faidley died Monday at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.
-from newspaper clipping found at the Jasper
County (IA) Genealogy Library, paper and date unknown