Willys Morey-Polly 1914 - 2009

MOREY, POLLY, HOPKINS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/21/2020 at 03:32:10

Sioux City Journal
23 February 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Willys Morey-Polly, 94, of Sioux City died Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Berkemier Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Merrill Muller officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Visitation will resume one hour prior to services Tuesday at the funeral home.

Willys was born on Aug. 7, 1914, in Inman, Neb., the daughter of Willis and Iva (Morey) Hopkins. She was raised in Inman and graduated from Inman Country School.

She married Edwin Morey on April 1, 1940, in Primghar, Iowa. She came to Sioux City after her marriage and lived here most of her life. Edwin died on June 19, 1976, in Sioux City. She married Bill Polly on Sept. 24, 1983. He died in 1991 in Sioux City.

Willys loved gardening, especially growing irises and roses. She also crocheted, did needlework and worked with plastic canvasses. She was an avid reader, reading Christian books and books about prairie history. Willys enjoyed working on the family acreage but what she loved most was spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a Methodist.

She is survived by her two sons, Jim and Marianne Morey of Sioux City, and Dan and LaNore Morey of Plymouth County, Iowa; a daughter, Nancy Morey of Fulton, Mo.; 13 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; 21 great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Virginia and Dale Perry of O'Neill, Neb., and Ellen Makey of Bayard, Neb.; and two brothers, Kemp Hopkins of Palmer, Neb., and Larry and Margaret Hopkins of Harrisburg, Neb.

She was preceded in death by her husbands; her parents; a daughter, Jeanenne Leedom; a great-grandchild, Brian Peplinski; two sisters and their husbands, Edna and Jack Woods, and Jeanette and Ralph Barnes; and a brother and his wife, Don and Mary Hopkins.

Pallbearers will be her great-grandchildren.

A memorial has been established in her name for Hospice of Siouxland.