Nola J. Kelley, 77

Nola J. Kelley, 77, of Blair, died Sunday, March 20, 2005, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair, exactly four years to the day following the loss of her beloved husband, Russ.

Visitation begins at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 22 at Campbell-Aman Funeral home in Blair, with the family receiving friends from 6 -8 p.m. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, at Country Bible Church in Blair. Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery in Albaton, Iowa.

Nola Jeanne Oneal was born July 8, 1927, to Vernie Wayne and Hazel Leone (Nelson) neal. She grew up in Sloan, Iowa, graduating from Sloan High School. She attended Wayne State University.

On June 1, 1947, she married Aaron Russell Kelley at her parents' home in Sloan.

The Kelleys settled in Blair, where Mrs. Kelley taught 5th grade in the Blair school from 1949 until 1957, when the couple moved to Texas. They later relocated to southern California.

After moving back to Blair in 1973, the couple purchased Burke's Fashions, a ladies clothing store, which they later renamed Kelley's Fashions. They worked together in the business until 1984, when they retired.

Until recently, Mrs. Kelley was an active member of the Baker's Dozen, a local Christian women's sisterhood. She enjoyed all types of needlework and especially liked to knit baby stocking caps for the newborns at Memorial Community Hospital.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sherry and Dick Everhart of Blair; her sister, Verna Mino of Armstrong, Iowa; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three nieces.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by an infant son; a grandson; and her oldest daughter, Sandra Pounds.

#2-Published in the Omaha World Herald March 21, 2005

Kelley, Nola, age 77, of Blair. Survived by daughter and son-in-law Sherry and Dick Everhart, of Blair; sister, Verna Mino, Armstrong, IA; 7 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren; 3 nieces.

Visitation will begin 10 a.m. Tuesday, with family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m. Services Wed. 10:30 a.m., Country Bible Church in Blair. Burial Fairview Cemetery, Albaton, Iowa.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home, Blair Nebraska.

Find a Grave Memorial #37607001

Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.