Almeda (Oller) Tiley (1957)

CARTER, FARRIS, MARTIN, OLLER, TILEY

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 6/26/2007 at 11:46:20

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 16, 1957

Rites Thursday For Mrs. Tiley

Funeral services will be held this Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Richards Funeral home for Mrs. Almeda Tiley, whose death occurred Monday in the highway accident near Bevington. Burial will be made in Des Moines.

Mrs. Tiley was a resident of Winterset for most of her life. She was born April 14, 1890 at Cliff, Nebr. a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Oller. When she was 10 years old she moved to Winterset with her parents, and this community remained her home until her marriage, eight years ago, to William Tiley. Since then they had lived at North Platte, Nebr.

Mr. and Mrs. Tiley had visited the past month in Winterset with her sister, Mrs. Iva Carter and had been planning to build a new home here.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Florence Farris of Des Moines; three grandsons, Thomas, Stephen and Rets, Jr., all of Des Moines; two sisters, Mrs. Carter of Winterset and Mrs. Lela Martin of Des Moines; and three brothers, John Oller of Creston, Earl Oller of Omaha and Lee Oller of Cut Bank, Montana.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 16, 1957

ONE WOMAN DIES TWO MEN INJURED

Third Death in Two Weeks Boosts 1957 toll to five

The tempo of deadly highway crashes continued in Madison County this week, with the death of a Winterset woman and serious injuries to two men.

Instantly killed in a collision Monday near Bevington was Mrs. Almeda Tiley, 67. a resident of Winterset most of her life, Mrs. Tiley had been living for the past several years in North Platte, Nebr., but had been visiting here for several weeks.

Injured in the same accident was Mrs. Tiley’s husband, William J. Tiley, aged 89.

Also seriously injured in an accident that occurred Monday morning at the government grain bin corner, just northwest of Winterset, was Walter a. Seybold, 77, of the West Star community.

The Tiley accident occurred about 5:15 p.m. Monday at the Kelleher curve on highway No. 92, southwest of Bevington. Tiley was driving his car, accompanied by Mrs. Tiley. They were going east when they came up behind a tractor, pulling a wagon, driven by Merle Jordan. The tractor driver slowed down and was signaling a left hand turn into the driveway of his farm home at that point. Just then a rock truck, driven by Dale Smith of Earlham, approached from the east. Jordan was waiting until after the rock truck went by before he made his turn.

Sheriff Rex Rouse, one of the investigating officers, reported that Tiley appeared to come up behind the tractor too fast. He reported that Tiley his brakes and skidded into the left lane of traffic, directly in from of the on coming rock truck.

The collision threw both Mr. and Mrs. Tiley out of their car. Wheels of the truck passed over Mrs. Tiley’s head, and she died instantly. Tiley was taken to Memorial hospital in Winterset. Where his condition was described Tuesday as fair.

Smith, the truck driver, and Jordan, the tractor driver escaped injury. The Tiley car was demolished. The truck, which was owned by Smith and M. L. Percy of near Pitzer, was damaged considerably.