Arthur W. Hadley (1960)

HADLEY, WATT, BRAUER

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Earlham Library Obituaries February 1960
Earlham, Iowa

ARTHUR W. HADLEY

Arthur W. Hadley, son of Jesse and Emeline Hadley, was born November 14, 1873, in Adair Co. and died at his home in Villisca January 31, 1960. The family lived in the Bear Creek neighborhood north of Earlham until he was about twelve years old, then noved to Earlham where he attended school. Later he went to LeGrand Friends Academy in Marshall Co., where he graduated in 1895. After fifteen years in industrial work, he entered Penn College at Oskaloosa where he graduated in 1914.

Just prior to his graduation from college, he was recorded a minister of the Gospel by the Oskaloosa Meeting of Friends. He was married to Nettie M. Watt of Villisca in 1915.

He served as YMCA Secretary in Chicago and Washington, Iowa. He was overseas in France as YMCA Secretary during World War I. He served as pastor of several Friends churches in Iowa and as superintendent of White's Institute in Lee County for three years. He and Nettie Hadley spent thirteen years as missionaries to the Osage Indians in Hominy, Okla. He was pastor of the Earlham Friends Church for three years, then retired in 1951 to their home in Villisca where he has lived since. He still was a member of the Earlham Friends Church, which was his boyhood church.

Surviving, besides his wife Nettie, is one sister Pearl Brauer of Minneapolies, Minn.; three brothers, Waldo of Glendale, California, Isom of Wooster, Ohio and Homer of Fredericksburg, Iowa.

The funeral service was held in the Advent Christian Church at Villisca on February 3, 1960 at two o'clock with Rev. Orval Cox, Superintendent of Iowa Yearly Meeting, officiating, assisted by Rev. L. Willard Reynolds, pastor of the Earlham Church. Burial was in the cemetery at Villisca. A large delegation from Earlham attended the funeral service.