James E. Remley 1877-1954

REMLEY, YENTER, TUCKER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 9/1/2022 at 09:26:35

5 July 1954 - The Anamosa Journal

James E. Remley, 77, an Anamosa attorney for about 53 years, died at 11 a.m. Friday, July 2, in a Maquoketa hospital following a short illness.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 4, at Baptist church. Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiated with burial in Riverside cemetery.

Mr. Remley entered University hospitals, Iowa City, May 5 for surgery and remained there three weeks. He returned home May 26 and on June 18 was taken to the Maquoketa hospital.

James Edwin Remley was born at Anamosa Feb. 24, 1877, the son of Howard Marshall and Mary Underwood Remley. He graduated from Anamosa high school in 1896 and from the State University of Iowa law school in 1901.

Mr. Remley had practiced law in Anamosa since 1901. While at SUI he was a member of Sigma Nu social fraternity and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.

As attorney he practiced before the Iowa supreme court many times and held the record for winning seven consecutive cases appeal from Jones county to the high court. Four of these cases were reversals of lower court decisions.

He was a member of the city council, president of the Jones county bar association, a trustee and past president of the Riverside cemetery association. He authored the Fairview township section of the Jones county history published in 1910 and wrote a history of Jones county's courthouses for the dedication of the new courthouse in 1936.

For 25 years he was a director of the Niles and Watters savings bank.

Mr. Remley served three years on the Iowa state bar association's legal bibliography committee, was an organizer and first president of the Anamosa Rotary club and was, at one time, an official of the Jones county fair association.

He was a member of Anamosa lodge No. 46 A.F. and A.M. of the Knights Templar and El Kahir Shrine temple. Member of the Anamosa Baptist church, he served many years as a trustee and finance committee member and for many years as executive secretary and treasurer of the Hinchman fund of the Iowa Baptist convention.

Long active in Republican politics, Mr. Remley was a member of the Jones county GOP central committee and was an alternate delegate to the party's national convention at Kansas City in 1928.

He married Lucy Tucker at Anamosa Oct. 18, 1911.

Survivors include his wife; one son, James T. Remley, Jones county attorney; two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Wunder, Dysart; and Mrs. Lawrence Williams, Maquoketa; 6 grandchildren; a brother, Robert, Webster City; and sisters, Mrs. Clara L. Yenter and Elsie Remley, Seattle, Wash.

One son, Wheeler, his parents, four sisters and three brothers preceeded him in death.

Pallbearers were James A. Buckner, Don S. Ruhl, Leonard J. Wegman, Sam Ellison, Edgar Beach, William T. Connery.