Amy Luella Hadley (1973)

DEINES, HADLEY, NELLIS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/6/2008 at 11:40:58

The Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, March 15, 1973

Obituary

Amy Luella Hadley was born September 14, 1887, near Mt. Vernon, South Dakota. She was the daughter of Charles H. Hadley and Almeda Hobson Hadley. She passed away March 4, 1973 at Maple Lin Manor, Earlham, Iowa.

In 1895 the family came to Iowa in a covered wagon, going to a farm near Glenwood. In the spring of 1897, they came to the Bear Creek neighborhood. On December 1, 1903, they moved to the town of Earlham, which has been her home ever since. She completed her elementary education in the rural schools and was graduated from the Earlham Academy in 1905. She taught in the rural schools for some time before entering Penn College at Oskaloosa from which she graduated in 1916. For the next ten years she taught most of the time in the Friends’ Academies at North Branch and at Haviland, Kansas. She returned home in 1926 because of her mother’s illness.

She was the first librarian in the Earlham Public Library and served at times without pay. She was helpful in stimulating interest in the new building.

Amy was a birthright member of Friends and was active in church and community work as long as her health permitted. For many years she was a member of the Ministry and Council, and often served as Sunday School teacher.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister Lora. She is survived by her sister Martha, a niece Esther Deines, a nephew Robert H. Nellis and their families, and many friends.

It seems appropriate to close this memorial with a poem she wrote following her sister’s death:

Dear one, your work on earth is ended,
Your life above has now begun;
The joys of heaven and earth are blended,
The crown of victory you have won.

Life’s span down here speeds swiftly, surely,
A brief day and then comes night,
But the morn dawns bright, securely,
All radiant with eternal light.

Funeral services were held at the Friends Church Tuesday, March 6, with John H. Baxter in charge. Burial was in the Earlham cemetery.

Those attending from a distance were Esther Deines of Newhall, California; Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Nellis of Dixon, Illinois; Robert H. Nellis Jr., of Des Moines, Merle Brauer and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Raines, of Oskaloosa.

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