Marie Shroyer Dailey Hass

Marie Shroyer Dailey Hass, a 98 year-old resident of Princeton and formerly of Mercer, died on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018 at a Princeton nursing home.
The body was cremated under the direction of Roberson Funeral Home at Princeton.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. She will be inurned beside her first husband and the Fred Dailey in-laws in Evergreen Cemetery in Lineville, IA.
Mrs. Hass was born at home on Nov. 17, 1919 in rural Mercer, the daughter of Virgil Wayne and Jessie Toot Shroyer. They soon moved to town for the kids to go to school. She dropped out of school to marry Howard K. Dailey of Lineville. They started housekeeping and a family in South Lineville. After three years, they bought a farm east of Mercer in the Cleopatra community. She lived on that farm until her three children graduated. She then moved to Princeton to finish her high school education and went on to graduate from Trenton Junior College, now North Central Missouri College, then received a degree in education from Northwest Missouri College at Maryville.
After the death of her husband, she became librarian at the Lineville school. She met and married Joe Hass, a farmer of Princeton, and they moved to a farm near Mercer. She continued to operate Dailey Acres Farm with her youngest son, Elijah D. Dailey.
Mrs. Hass was a farm manager and farm hand when her husband was in ill health. She also worked with him in clerking area farm sales, including the Thompson Farm of Spickard when it was given to the University of Missouri-Columbia. In her retirement she became a quilter and every grandchild and beyond had a handmade graduation or birth quilt. Her quilts raised funds at auction for the Mercer United Methodist Church.
A major accomplishment was teaching a love of reading to her offspring. In the days before television and before REA electricity, she read books and stories aloud beside the wood stove in the farmhouse living room. She sat under the gas Aladdin reading lamp.
She was a mother, housewife, farmer, auction clerk, teacher, librarian, cattle breeder, pie baker, quilter and last survivor of nine children.
Her aim was to live to be 100, as did several of her aunts in the Toot family, but the flu intervened.
Mrs. Hass is survived by her children, Fred Duane Dailey of Columbia, Deanna Kay Schreffler of Des Moines, IA and Elijah D. Dailey of Mercer; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her two husbands, Howard Dailey and Joe Hass; and eight brothers and sisters, Wauneta Shroyer, Wesley Shroyer, Eva Alley, Vera Dunbar, Ruth Austin, Margaret Logan, Wayne Shroyer and Betty Dailey.
Memorials may be made to the F.D. Dailey Student Endowment and/or Mercer United Methodist Church in care of Roberson Funeral Home, PO Box 316, Princeton, MO 64673.