Martha May Hambly (1890-1967)

HAMBLY, COZZENS, FERGUSON, HEINTZ, DORREN, VANDERLAN, NOLTE, ROSSER, DORRIS

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Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

Hambley rites to be Wednesday
Mrs. Martha May Hambley, 77, Colo, died Monday morning at Oak Park Manor, Nevada, after a long illness.
Born on a farm south of Colo, Mrs. Hambley was a lifetime resident of the Colo community. She was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and of the Ruth Circle.
She married Al Hambley May 31, 1911.
Mrs. Hambley is survived by four sons, Harlan Hambley of Elnhurst, Ill.; Carlton Hambley, Nevada; Norris Hambley of Santa Ana, Calif.; and Allan Hambley, Aurora, Colo.; four daughters, Mrs. Martha Jean Ferguson, also of Aurora, Colo.; Mrs. Marilyn Vanderlan, Charles City; Mrs. Ardeth Dorren of Denver, Colo.: and Mrs. Jean Heintz, Nevada; 16 grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; ; two sisters, Mrs. Elva Nolte, Clermont, Calif.; and Mrs. Elma Rosser, Hollywood, Calif.; and a brother, William Cousins, Zearing.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Al, and two brothers.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Colo, with the Rev. Duane Manning officiating. Burial will be in the Colo Cemetery.
The body will lie in state at the Brouhard Funeral Home, Zearing until Wednesday noon.
Ames Daily Tribune, 5 Sept. 1967 P 8 C 2 & 3

Note: tombstone has Hambly, as do other family members. Ames Daily Tribune has a lot of typos in their articles/obituaries.

Class of '09 Gave No Play At Colo High
The 50 year graduating class of the Colo High School, the class of 1909, will have 100 per cent attendance at the alumni banquet May 16, if Mrs. Al Hambley is present.
She was the only member of the graduating class that year.
Through part of the four years Randall Gross was also a member of the class. The class of 1908 had 11 members and there were eight members in the class of 1910.
Diploma Presented

Mrs. Hambly recalls that the commencement exercises were held in the Methodist Church with Henry Yeager presenting her diploma. Mrs. Charles Fleming made her graduation dress, she recalls.
There was no senior class play but according to custom, Mrs. Hambly wrote her oration on the topic, “True Education.”
The old wooden school house, in the same location as the present grade school, served as the educational center with Wilford Smiley, the superintendent, and Ima Preston and Florence Schee, the teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. Hambly are the parents of eight children, four boys and four girls. “I had children in the Colo schools for 30 years from 1920 to 1950 and my family has more school hours here than any other family of a Colo graduate, according to statistics compiled by W. P. Truesdell in 1950,” she said.
May Cozzens, was born in the old Cozzens' homestead north of Colo and lived in Colo nearly all her life. She married Al Hambly in 1911.
To Be Honored
Their children are Harlan, Albion, Ill., who operates a tractor sale business; Carlton, Hubbard, a farmer who graduated in 1935, Norris, Santa Ana, Calif., who owns a lighting and fixture company, graduated in 1938, Allan, Albion, Ill., a tractor salesman; Martha, Mrs. Perry Ferguson of Colorado Springs, Colo., graduated in 1940; Marilyn, Mrs. Vernon Vanderlan, Charles City, graduated in 1943; Ardith, Mrs. Roy Dorris, of Broomfield Heights, Colo., and Jane, Mrs. Dean Heintz, Nevada, who graduated in 1950. The Hamblys also have 14 grandchildren.
Mrs. Hambly will be honored at the alumni banquet at the Colo gym, Saturday.
Ames Daily Tribune, 13 May 1959 P 2 C 6