Mary Stanley

Mary Annee Stanley, age 94 of Nashua, Iowa died Monday, August 16, 2010, at the Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, August 19, 2010, at the United Methodist Church in Nashua with Rev. Daryl Pals officiating. Nelda Shepard will be the organist accompanying Janice Edson, vocalist. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nashua with Mary Annee’s grandchildren as pallbearers, Jill Eilderts, Jodi Staebell, Andrew Wright, Ned Wright, Mark Stanley and Kim Cox. Honorary pallbearers are her great-grandchildren, Matt Westendorf, Kate Staebell, Grace Staebell, Micah Barnhill-Wright and Miriam Barnhill-Wright. Friends may call 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Hugeback & Chenoweth Funeral Home in Nashua. Visitation continues an hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. Mary Annee was born July 27, 1916, on the Tracy family farm two miles south of Nashua, IA the daughter of Frank and Margaret (Jones) Tracy. She was baptized, started Sunday School, and started elementary school in Osage, IA. The family moved back to Nashua in 1923. She graduated from the Nashua High School in 1933 and completed post-graduate work with second graders and taught school two miles west of Nashua for four years. Mary Annee married James Stanley June 9, 1939, and they first lived north of Nashua. The couple had three children, Janice born April 16, 1941, Delores born August 28, 1943 and Bill born July 29, 1947. Mary Annee and James moved to the Tracy farm in 1944 when her mother died. The family then moved to an acreage east of town in 1945. She taught at various country schools after her children were older. They moved to Chestnut Street in Nashua in 1981. Mary Annee also sold Avon in the area. Jim died February 19, 1999. Mary Annee remained at her home until June of 2005, when she moved to Cedar Vale in Nashua. Mary Annee was a long-time member of Nashua United Methodist Church and The Eastern Star. She is survived by her son, Bill (Sandy) Stanley of Waverly; two daughters, Janice (Keith) Creswell of Waterloo and Delores (Doug) Wright of Rochester; six grandchildren, Jill Eilderts, Jodi Staebell, Andrew Wright, Ned Wright, Mark Stanley, and Kim Stanley Cox; five great grandchildren, Matt Westendorf, Kate Staebell, Micah Barnhill Wright, Grace Staebell, and Miriam Barnhill Wright; three brothers, Duane Tracey of Nashua, Merton (Ann) Tracy of Nashua and Leon (Ellen) Tracy of Tuscon, AZ. She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Frank and Margaret (Jones) Tracy; her husband, James; daughter, Margaret at birth; stepmother, Nita Bowen Tupper; and sister, Kathryn Richardson.