Miss Mabel Wiley 1883-1963

WILEY, BOWLES

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 2/15/2002 at 18:51:04

MISS MABEL WILEY

KEOSAUQUA. -- Miss Mabel Wiley, 80, of near Mount Sterling, died Saturday about 1:15 p.m. at Memorial Hospital in Keosauqua. She had been ill two years.

Born Feb. 14, 1883, near Mount Sterling, she was the daughter of John and Eliza Bowles Wiley. At the age of three she went to live with her grandparents on the farm where she had lived since.

One of four children, she was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters. Survivors include cousins.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Burnett-Catcott Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Eis of Milton officiating. Burial will be in Prall Cemetery, southeast of Keosauqua.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 170 of Obit Book B found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in July 1999. Name of newspaper not given, however a handwritten date of Mch 9 - 1963 is written on the obit.)

[originally posted 31 Aug 1999]

ADD'L INFO: Mabel and her brother Stanley went to live with her paternal grandparents because her mother died in childbirth and her father was a travelling salesman. Her sisters Stella and Gertie went to live with their maternal grandparents. I would like further details of this family.