Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Coon, Verona (Hawley) 1922
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Lyons Herald, 19 Jan 1922

Mrs. Verona Hawley Coon was born April 23rd, 1841, in the town of Wirt, 
Alleghany county, New York.  Her parents moved to Michigan during her girlhood, 
and after completing her education at Willoughby college, while residing with 
relatives in Ohio and teaching a short while in that state, she joined her 
parents in Michigan where she taught for several years prior to her marriage to 
William C. Hawley.  Of this union four children were born – Emma, the oldest 
child, died in childhood.  Those remaining are Corinne Hawley Abney of Kansas 
City, Mo., Walter M. Hawley of Grand Rapids, Mich., Jessie Louise Bradley of 
St. Louis, Mo., Miss Louise Abney, a granddaughter, and a step-son, Wm. C. 
Hawley of this place.

Owing to adverse circumstances after her marriage Mrs. Hawley resumed teaching 
in the Lyons school and taught for a number of years, always gaining the love 
and confidence of her pupils and making lifelong friends of them.  A few years 
after the death of her husband in 1889, she went to Kansas City, Mo., to make 
her home with her children.

Her entire life was spent in devotion to her Lord and humanity.  She was always 
prominent in her home church in Lyons, and after going to Kansas City, where 
she united with Bates Baptist church, she spent seven years in loving, loyal 
missionary work in East Bottoms where she was known as “the angel of the 
valley.”

In 1893 she married Major John Coon, and several years after her marriage to 
him she came back to Lyons to reside with and care for her sister, Mrs. L. M. 
Barnard.  Major Coon passed away in Lyons thirteen years ago.  Mrs. Coon 
continued to live with Mrs. Barnard until August, 1918, when both came to 
Kansas City to make their home with Mrs. Abney.  Death came Friday, January 
6th, 1922, while she was visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. E. 
Bradley, in St. Louis.

Her life was one of unselfish devotion and willing sacrifice to her dear ones 
and friends, and all who knew her can testify to her sweet but unswerving 
adherence to a conscience in perfect accord with her Master’s.  The many and 
beautiful floral tributes and great congregation of friends who gathered to pay 
their last respects at her funeral in her Kansas City home bespoke the love and 
esteem in which she was held.


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