Bob and Vera OLNEY and their daughter Faye moved in and out of the Maloy community.

On March 1, 1943, the family moved to the Dennis SHAY tenant house, and Bob worked for him. This house burned after the OLNEYS had moved back to Redding.

Again in March they moved to Roy LEPLEY'S farm south of town. After five years in 1955, they went back to their home grounds of Redding. But in 1955 Maloy needed a telephone operator. They moved into the Central Office and Vera became the Central Operator. Mr. OLNEY died in March of 1964.

Faye had married Perry MAGGARD, and they lived in Des Moines. Vera elected to give up her job here and go to Des Moines where she found employment as a telephone operator for a business there.

Vera remarried in a few years. She and her husband made many visits to friends in Maloy and to visit her aged mother in Mount Ayr. Vera passed away some years back.

Lee MOTSINGER, Vera's youngest brother, made his home with them, and he went to school in Maloy from eighth grade in 1946 until he graduated in 1951. He now lives in Minnesota.

NOTES: Robert George OLNEY, the son of Carl Eugene and Maude Nora (ARMSTRONG) OLNEY, was born near Redding in 1906, and died at the age of 58 years in 1964. He married in Worth County, Missouri on November 17, 1934 Vera Idell MOTSINGER. Vera, the daughter of Fred and Bernice Irene (SHORT) MOTSINGER, was born in Worth County, Missouri June 13, 1914. She died at the age of 68 years in March of 1983, Des Moines. Robert and Vera were interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr.

SOURCE: Maloy, Iowa Centennial History: 1887 - 1987 p. 152.

Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library

Transcription and Notes by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011