Hooley, Nettie J. Classen (1920-2009)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2009 Jul 20 p. 9

Birth date: 1920 Mar 12

text of obituary:

NETTIE J. HOOLEY

Nettie J. Hooley, 89, of North Lawrence, Ohio, died May 23, 2009, at Shady Lawn Health Care Community in Dalton following complications from a stroke. She was born March 12, 1920, to John L. and Mary Reimer Classen near Meade, Kan.

She attended Meade Bible Academy, Tabor Academy and Omaha University, and graduated from Goshen (Ind.) College with a degree in secondary education.

In 1947, she married Clarence D. Hooley and moved to Pleasant View. She taught for a year at Pleasant View School and then worked in the occupational therapy department of Massillon State Hospital. After raising three sons, she returned to school at Kent State University to renew her teaching certificate and subsequently taught English and German at Central Christian High School for 16 years.

She was a member of Pleasant View Mennonite Church, where she served in a variety of roles including as a Sunday school teacher, Girls Club sponsor, Women’s Missionary and Service Commission member, an elder, and as mentor and friend to many of all ages. After retirement, she and Clarence served for a year at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind., and for three months to the Choctaw Christian Church in Louisville, Miss. They served on the Ohio Inter-Mennonite Council on Aging, and they also traveled around the world visiting family and friends.

Survivors include three sons, David J. Hooley and his wife, Jane, of Leola, Pa., Donald E. Hooley and his wife, Mary Ina, of Bluffton, and Daniel R. Hooley and his wife, Julia, of Canton; a sister, Selma Ulbrich of Henderson, Nev.; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence, in 2005, and by four brothers.

Funeral services were held at Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Burial was in the Pleasant View Cemetery.