Karley, Dorothy M. 1915-1996

KARLEY, COOPER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/7/2008 at 19:56:19

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Dorothy Marie Karley, 81, Sioux City
CAUSE OF DEATH: after a short illness
DATE of DEATH: Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1996
PLACE of DEATH: a Sioux City hospital
DATE of BIRTH: May 23, 1915
PLACE of BIRTH: Custer, S.D.
PARENTS: daughter of Fred and Mabel Cooper.
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 1st MARRIAGE: Elmer F. Karley, Sept. 19, 1930, Council Bluffs, Iowa
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 2nd MARRIAGE:
OCCUPATION: The couple farmed in rural Merrill until 1940 and lived in rural Hinton until 1958, when they moved to Sioux City. He died Sept. 15, 1985, in Sioux City. She worked for the Sioux City Public School System.
SURVIVORS: include five daughters, Mrs. Wally (DeLores) Weimar of Bella Vista, Ark., Mrs. Howard (Doris) Barrett of Florissant, Colo., Marilyn Semple of Sioux City, Mrs. Charles (Barbara) Olson of Loveland, Colo., and Mrs. Duane (Konnie) Wolff, of Sioux City; three sons and their wives, Elmer Jr. and Marilyn of Sheldon, Iowa, Larry and Carol of Elk Point, and Monte and Janis; two sisters, Marie Richey and Velma Johnson, both of Mount Vernon, Wash.; a brother, Gerald Cooper of Snohomish, Wash.; 19 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: a granddaughter, Becky; a great grandson, Zachary, and two sons-in-law, Wayne Held and Roy Weed.
PLACE of BURIAL: Hillside Cemetery, Merrill, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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