Greene-Guthrie-Jones County IA Archives Obituaries.....Hawley, Merle George December 5, 1974
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Scranton Journal (12/12/1974)
Obituary from THE SCRANTON JOURNAL Thursday, December 12, 1974:  MERLE HAWLEY 
DIES IN MONTICELLO

Merle Hawley, well-known resident of Olin, passed away at the John McDonald 
Hospital in Monticello, Thursday evening, December 5, following a lingering 
illness.

Merle George Hawley was born at Scranton, IA  August 30, 1892.  He grew up and 
attended school at Scranton.  On August 30, 1922, he was married to Alice 
Underwood at Bagley, IA.  Mr. and Mrs. Hawley resided around Bagley and 
Scranton until 1930, when they moved to Mt. Vernon, where they lived for two 
years before coming to the Olin vacinity in 1932.

Merle was a member of the Olin First United Methodist Church.  He was a member 
of the Masonic Order, having just this past year been awarded his fifty-year 
pin.  He was a former member of the Eastern Star.
Surviving are his wife, Alice; four daughters, Ruth Clark of Springville; 
Laura Lee Thumma of Stanwood; Wilma DeLancey of Anamosa; and Linda Gravert of 
Davenport; two sons, Dr. M.Dale Hawley of Manhattan, KS; Charles M. Hawley of 
Panora.  A daughter Irene and a son, Wayne, preceded their father in death.  
Two brothers survive: Roy, of Rippey, IA; Walter, of Hawthorn, CA; a sister, 
Nell, of Boone, IA; also 21 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted in the Olin First Methodist Church Monday 
afternoon, December 9, with Rev. Ralph Grote, pastor, officiating.  Mrs. 
Kenneth Zimmerman served as organist.  Two congregational hymns, "How Great 
Thou Art" and "The Old Rugged Cross" were used.

Pallbearers were grandsons Paul, Mark and Marlin Clark, and Gary, Geoffrey and 
Bruce Thumma.  Funeral arrangements were in charge of Hayden's Funeral Home.  
Burial was in the Olin Cemetery.


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