Richard Harlan “Dick” Stanley, an 84-year-old resident of Lineville, IA, died on Wednesday, Feb, 8, 2006 at the Villisca Good Samaritan Center in Villisca, IA.
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Richard Harlan “Dick” Stanley, an 84-year-old resident of Lineville, IA, died on Wednesday, Feb, 8, 2006 at the Villisca Good Samaritan Center in Villisca, IA.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006 at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Lineville. Rev. Max Carmichael will officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery at Lineville.
Open visitation is now under way. A family visitation will be held at the funeral home from 7 to 8 o’clock tonight (Friday, Feb. 10, 2006).
Mr. Stanley was born on March 26, 1921 on a farm west of Princeton, the son of Claude William and Lennie Mae Mulvania Stanley. He was married on Jan. 23, 1943 to Alta Beatrice Cox, who preceded him in death on Dec. 30, 2004. The couple lived on a farm west of Mercer until 1951, when they purchased and moved to a farm west of Clio, IA. He also worked on road construction until 1964, when he quit. The couple purchased another farm and began dairy farming until 1987, when they retired and moved to Lineville. After moving to Lineville, Mr. Stanley enjoyed going back to the farm to look after his cattle.
He is survived by two daughters, Twila Settje and her husband, Herman, of Creston, NE, and Linda Bishop of Mitchellville, IA; four sons, Gerald “Bud” Stanley and his wife, Ginger, of Edna, KS, Bill Stanley and his wife, Sally, of Clio, Bob Stanley and his wife, Joan, of Nevada, IA, and Richard Stanley of Corydon, IA; 17 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife; his parents; a great-grandson, Matthew; two brothers, Harold and John Stanley; and five sisters, Doris Robinson, Pauline Wiggins, Florence Rush, Virginia Fowlkes and Catherine O’Brien.
The family requests memorials to the Alzheimer’s Association. They may be mailed to the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel at PO Box 316, Princeton, MO 64673.