Stanley, Edna Rose 1879-1960

STANLEY, WISSLER, MORLEY, GORSUCH, CLABAUGH, LOY

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 7/8/2014 at 16:02:12

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Monday, Aug. 29, 1960

EDNA STANLEY, 80,
SUCCUMBS SUNDAY;
SERVICES TUESDAY

Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Smith Funeral Home for Mrs. Edna Rose Stanley, 80, Grinnell, widow of Milton O. Stanley, who died early Sunday morning at a Cedar Rapids hospital. She had been ill for the past four months.

Officiating will be the Rev. F. Donald Byrd, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. Organist will be Mrs. Eugene Holley with vocal music by Miss Linda Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Pearce, and Eugene Holley.

Pallbearers will be Martin Pearce, Bill French, Archie McBlain, Myles Olson, John Peak and Paul McConnell. Burial will be in Hazelwood cemetery. Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

The daughter of Joseph and Sarah Wissler Morley, she was born on Dec. 9th, 1879, at Yorktown, Iowa, one of a family of 13 children. She received her early education in the Yorktown schools and on Sept. 1st, 1915, at Yorktown, she was united in marriage with Milton Otto Stanley.

To this union were born two children: Eugene Robert, who was killed in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942, and Mrs. Robert (Ruth) Gorsuch of Cedar Rapids.

Other survivors include three granddaughters, Carol Jean, Kathy, and Joyce Gorsuch, all at home in Cedar Rapids; two sisters, Mrs. Flora Clabaugh of Arlington, Va., Mrs. Arta Loy of Hitchcock, Okla.; and one brother, Frank Morley of Bedford.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her son, her husband in April of 1959, and nine brothers and sisters.

Mrs. Stanley came to Grinnell with her family from Colfax and had lived in Grinnell for over 34 years before making her home with her daughter in Cedar Rapids four months ago. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church, belonged to the Missionary Society of the church, and was a Gold Star Mother of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.