Helen H. Hadley (2003)

COULTER, HADLEY, HARRIS, HILL, MAXSON, MENDENHALL, WOLFE

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/4/2006 at 10:34:03

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Helen Hadley, Stuart

Helen Harriet Harris Hadley, 97, died Aug. 1, 2003 in Stuart.

Funeral services were held Tuesday Aug. 5, at the Dexter Methodist Church with the Rev. Kirk Seagren and Pastor Dallas Gilreath officiating. Burial was at Bear Creek Cemetery of rural Earlham.

Helen Hadley was born Oct. 21, 1905 in the Bear Creek community of Dallas County to Charles Edward and Grace (Harris) Hadley. She attended the rural schools of Hillside and Bear Creek during the elementary grades and then attended Earlham High School, graduating in 1923.

As she had taken Normal Training in high school, Helen began teaching school after graduation. Her first teaching job was at the Commerce School, west of Valley Junction. She taught a total of 12 and one-half years in the rural schools of Dallas County. In 1939, she and her family moved southwest of Dexter where she resided for 49 years.

She was a member of the Bear Creek Friends Church, Penn Township Women's Farm Bureau (president for two years), Dexter Women's Club, Golden Agers and Garden Club. She also was very active in the Penn Center and Mount Vernon churches where she was a member of the W.S.C.S. (U.M.W.). In 1988, she and her brother, Ober moved to the senior citizens' apartment in Dexter.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Myrie Coulter; three brothers, Freement, Ober and John; a nephew, Dick Wolfe; and a great-great-nephew, Steven Clay Hadley.

She is survived by four nephews, Lyle Hadley of Dana, Charles Hadley of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Eldon Coulter and Marvin Coulter, both of Earlham; three nieces, Marolyn Hill of Webster City, Eloise Maxson of Redfield and Martha Mendenhall of Earlham; seven great-nephews; eight great-nieces; 13 great-great-nephews and nieces; and three great-great-great-nephews and nieces.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Kuhn Funeral Homes of Dexter, Earlham and Redfield.

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