Viola C. Hartley

Viola Christena Hartley, one of seven children of Anna Kristina (Christoffersen) Pierce and Arthur DeVore Pierce, was born near Silver City, IA on February 13, 1920. Viola attended school in Silver City through the 8th grade. She worked as a housekeeper for area families and later as a waitress.
Viola married Adris Manford Hartley at Lincoln, NE on September 6, 1962. They lived in Glenwood, IA until purchasing an acreage west of Malvern, IA in the Hillsdale community. Viola enjoyed her duties as a homemaker caring for their acreage, and continuing to work as a housekeeper and waitress. Viola and Adris had been married for 33 years at the time of his death on January 6, 1996. Viola continued to live in her home. She enjoyed being a Retired Senior Volunteer and working part-time at West Central Development and at the Natural Resource Conservation Service in Malvern. Viola died on April 13, 2005 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, IA. She had attained the age of 85 years and two months.
Viola was preceded in death by her parents; husband Adris Hartley; infant brothers Vernon Pierce and Donald Pierce; infant sisters Mary Ann Pierce and Martha Pierce; brother Arthur Pierce, who was killed in action in 1950 while serving in the U. S. Navy, and son Darrel Hartley who died from leukemia in 2000; and Adris's daughters Donna Hartley and Darlene Hartley, who died in a tragic auto accident while returning home from a basketball game in 1956.
Viola is survived by her children Virgil Coleman and his wife Jeanette of Omaha, NE, Robert Coleman and his wife Lydia of Parker, CO, daughter Ruth Weak and her husband Donald of Glenwood, IA and daughter-in-law Nancy Hartley of Glenwood; sister Lucille Taylor of Henderson, IA; 19 grandchildren and great grandchildren.