Bradway, Roberta Dora 1929-2019

BRADWAY, MILLER, HOFFMAN, JONES, GRAY, WEST, KING, WADLE, JACKSON, CLAYPOOL, WHISENHUNT, PIERCY

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Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:38

Roberta Bradway
1929-2019

Celebration of life services for Roberta Bradway of Omaha, Neb., and formerly of Newton and Villisca, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Wolfe Funeral Home of Villisca, with a luncheon served at the Villisca Community Building followed by a 2 p.m. burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery of Corning.

Roberta Dora Bradway was born Jan. 16, 1929, in Decatur to Willard Ray and Ruth Elenore (Miller) Piercy. She was one of six children in her family. She attended country school, graduating from Corning High School.

She was united in marriage to Lenard Bradway Aug. 14, 1949, in Corning. She taught school for 4.5 years in southwest Iowa. She was a stay-at-home mother while she raised her daughters then worked in the Newton Hot Lunch Program for 13 years. She later worked for Principal Insurance for 13 years retiring in 1991. She was a member of the Corning Christian Church, the Newton First Christian Church and later the Villisca United Methodist Church.

Roberta is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lenard in 1975; two sisters, Joyce Hoffman and Ruby King; son-in-law, Steve Jones; brothers-in-law, Jack Gray, James West, Joe Hoffman and Wilber King.

She is survived by two daughters, Diane (Dave) Wadle of Stockton, Calif., and Barbara (Calvin) Jackson of Omaha, Neb.; four grandchildren, Michael (Sarah) Jones, Jeffrey (Michele) Jones, Melissa (Justin) Claypool and Ryan (Jenny Whisenhunt) Wadle; seven great-grandchildren, Brianna, Marcus and Caitlyn Jones, Evan Jones, Mindy, Ella and Ian Claypool; sister, Joann Gray; and two brothers, Ronald (Joanne) Piercy and Willard (Judy) Piercy.

Memorials may be made to the family for distribution.

Wolfe Funeral Home of Villisca in charge of arrangements. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, 12 Jan 2019.