Evlyn (Hollingsworth) Conley (2007)

CONLEY, GRISWOLD, HOLLINGSWORTH, JACKSON, NORBERG

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 11/15/2007 at 21:00:31

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

EVLYN CONLEY, Winterset

Evlyn Conley, 96, of Winterset, passed away Monday, Nov. 12, 2007.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset. A luncheon will immediately follow the services at the church. Memorials may be directed to the family.

Evlyn was born July 17, 1911, in Winterset, the daughter of Dennis and Bess J. (Lorimor) Hollingsworth. She graduated from Winterset High School in 1928 and from Iowa State University in 1932 where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics. She was united in marriage to Raymond D. Conley on Jan. 25, 1941.

Evlyn worked in a defense plant during World War II and later owned and operated the Red Hen Drive-In in Winterset. In her spare time, she was a dressmaker and did sewing for many of her friends. She was a member of the First United Presbyterian Church and the American Legion Auxiliary, both of Winterset. Evlyn also was a member of AARP and Progressive Study Club and regularly volunteered at the hospital and the care centers in Winterset.

Survivors include her son, Dennis Conley, and wife Marsha of Lincoln, Neb.; two sisters, Helen Jackson of Winterset and Mary Norberg of Kansas City, Mo.; two grandchildren, Scott Conley and wife Rose of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Robin Conley and husband Jeff Henke of Fort Collins, Colo.; and a great-grandson, Gabriel, son of Scott and Rose Conley.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Raymond; a brother, Bernard Hollingsworth; and a sister, Doris Griswold.

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