HANEY, Wallace
HANEY, ELLIS, KINGERY, GLASGOW, HORTON
Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 9/14/2013 at 15:41:07
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Grace Methodist Church for Wallace A. Haney, life-long resident of Mills County, who died Saturday. He had been suffering from a heart ailment. Rev. Paul Hicks officiated at the rites.
Music was by Robert Dean, soloist, with Mary E. Logan as accompanist. Ushers were Tom McBroom, Bill Hunt, Lee Walters, and Lester Hunt.
Honorary pallbearers were L. Goodrich, Frank Wright, R. C. Hill, R. C. Good, Bert Colwell, and Simon Korshoj. Active pallbearers were L. C. Dean, John Treat, Nathan Hazen, Harry Silkkerveer, Hugh LaRue, and William Stacey.
Flower ladies were Mrs. Robert Pollitt, Mrs. Ernest Dyke, Mrs. Tom McBroom, Mrs. Margaret Colwell, Mrs. Russell Ridenour, and Mrs. R. C. Good. Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery.
Wallace Asa Haney was born on a farm in Mills County near Glenwood, Iowa, on December 5, 1894 to William S. Haney and Rachel Ann Ellis Haney. He was one of ten children. He attended schools in Glenwood during his early school years, later enrolling in the Glenwood Business School.
On July 19, 1918, he was united in marriage to Nora Mae Knight, daughter of Milton and Emma Knight of Malvern at Broadway Methodist Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. To them were born five children, two of whom preceded him in death.
During World War I, he served in France as a member of the U.S. Army. Returning to Glenwood in 1919, he resumed farming. In the following years he farmed throughout Mills County on land near Silver City, Malvern, Henderson, and Tabor.
In the years subsequent to 1939, Mr. Haney was actively engaged in real estate busies in Glewood. He was affiliated with the Glenwood Chamber of Commerce, Realtor's Club, American Legion, Lions Club, Knights of Pythias, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
During the last 13 years, he spent the majority of his time in the oil production business activities in Kansas.
Mr. Haney was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, two sisters, a daughter and a son.
Survivors include his wife, Nora Mae Haney of Glenwood; one son, W. Max of Topeka, Kansas, two daughters, Mrs. Leora E. Kingery of Madison, Nebraska, and Mrs. LaVon Glasgow of Glenwood, seven grandchildren; three brothers, Alva Haney of Calwell, Idaho, C. E. Haney of Hollywood, California, and William F. Haney of Boise, Idaho; a sister, Mrs. Maggie Horton; and many nephews and nieces.
Glenwood Opinion Tribune, April 28, 1955, page 1 & 4
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