Jean Wells Farley 1919 - 2003

FARLEY, WELLS

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Date: 4/12/2014 at 23:29:51

Sioux City Journal
6 December 2003

Jean Wells Farley, 83, of Sioux City died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003, at Indian Hills Nursing Home in Sioux City.

Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at First Unitarian Church in Sioux City.

Mrs. Farley was born March 23, 1919, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Morris Miller Wells. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941, with a bachelor of science degree in biology. During World War II she served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant junior grade, and was a liaison officer in the Provost Marshall General's office in Washington, D.C.

She married Wayne Atkinson Farley in 1949. She taught in Sioux City Public Schools and co-wrote one of the first courses in African American History with Harriet Bluford for the school system.

She was active in the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women and First Unitarian Church. She was a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

She is survived by her husband, Wayne; a son, Peter; a daughter, Kathryn Pedersen; and a sister, Lois Reed