Julia M. Hadley (1980)

GROGAN, HADLEY, HAYS, NICKELS

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/4/2006 at 10:44:43

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
April 1980

JULIA M. HADLEY

Julia M. Hadley was born in Earlham, Iowa on April 4, 1884. She was one of nine children. She had six sisters and two brothers, two of whom are still living: Lora Hays of Winterset and Elma Nickels of Lyons, Kansas.

She attended Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa and in 1904, she married Waldo Emerson Hadley who during his lifetime was a business manager, banker, farmer and salesman.

The Hadleys moved to California in 1946 and settled in Glendale where she resided for 34 years.

Julia was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Glendale. During her lifetime, she was a Sunday School teacher, nursery school teacher and church pianist.

She leaves a son Philip of Sepulveda, California; a daughter, Miriam of North Fork, California; three grandsons, Douglas and Mark Grogan of Burbank and Patrick Hadley of Hollywood, California; also two great grandchildren, Tracey and Christopher Grogan.

Julia's hobbies were her home and her friends. She enjoyed needlework, Scrabble, her dictionary, reading and her family.

During the past few years, she had been in failing health and at the time of her death, Saturday, April 19, 1980, at the age of 96, she resided at the Allenvale Convalescent Hospital in Glendale, California.

She was a gentle, warm and caring Christian lady and will be missed by those whose lives she enriched by her presence here on earth.

Services were held at the Eckerman-Heisman Funeral Service Chapel, Monday, April 21, 1980 at 2:00 p.m. Officiating at the services was Rev. Kenneth W. Scovill. Interment was at the Grand View Memorial Park.

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