WILEY, Anna Pearl Grimes

WILEY, GRIMES, CAMPBELL, SHORT, HAMBURG, BURCHETT

Posted By: Bill Rathbun
Date: 2/27/2008 at 23:53:56

The Fairfield Ledger — Page 8 — Monday, December 11, 2006

Anna Pearl Grimes Wiley, 93, of Cantril, died Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant.

A funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Cantril United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Paul Rekward and the Rev. Jerry Caughron officiating. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery in Cantril.

Open visitation began at 2 p.m. today at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, where the family will be present from 6:30-8 p.m.

Memorials to Cantril United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at PO Box 224, Cantril 52542.

Mrs. Wiley was born May 25, 1913, near Libertyville, the daughter of James W. and Myrtle Campbell Grimes. She married Ralph R. Wiley Feb. 20, 1933, in Memphis, Mo. He died Sept. 22, 1978.

Mrs. Wiley moved to Van Buren County at the age of 13. She and her husband farmed in Van Buren County and retired to Cantril in 1973. She was a homemaker and had cooked at Starlite Cafe in Cantril.

Mrs. Wiley was a member of Cantril United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Esther Circle Quilters. In her youth, she had been baptized in the Presbyterian church.

Survivors include one son, Jim Wiley and wife Marilyn of rural Keosauqua; three daughters, Barbara Short and husband Dwight of Cantril, Helen Hamburg and husband Jack of rural Cantril and Sue Burchett and husband Edwin of rural Milton; 15 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one twin brother, William Verle in infancy; two brothers, Cecil and Clive Grimes; two sisters, Cloris Wiley and Intha Mae Grimes; and one grandson.

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