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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Marlyn Macy Hadley ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Hadley, Marlyn Macy
LAST NAME: Hadley FIRST NAME: Marlyn MIDDLE NAME: Macy NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 30 May 1910 DIED: 31 Aug 2006 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Dayton, Yamhill Co, Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Corvallis, Benton Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of Father: Louis Fuson Hadley

Maiden Name of Mother: Ethel Winona Ballantyne

Parents are buried in Dallas Cemetery

1920 OR CENSUS - Marlyn M. Hadley (9y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Louis F. (40y, b Oregon, occupation farmer) and Ethel W. (34y, b Pennsylvania) and sister Crystal M. (7y, b Oregon)

1930 OR CENSUS - Marlyn M. Hadley (19y, b Oregon, occupation machinist) enumerated with parents Louis F. (51y, b Oregon, married at age 27y, occupation foundry helper) and Ethel W. (44y, b Pennsylvania, married at age 21y, occupation bookkeeper) and sister Crystal M. (17y, b Oregon)

MARRIAGE - Marlyn M. Hadley & Hazel Utterback md 8 Nov 1936, Polk Co, Oregon

1940 OR CENSUS - Marlyn Hadley (29y, b Oregon, occupation machinist, living in same place in 1935) enumerated with wife Hazel (23y, b Oregon, living in rural Salem, Oregon, in 1935) and son Macy (1y, b Oregon)

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (2006 Benton Co) #06-26567

OBITUARY: 

Marlyn M. Hadley
Corvallis – The Hadley Family had deep roots in Oregon, homesteading in Dayton. Marlyn’s great grandfather came to Oregon in 1875 from Indiana, and was instrumental in starting the first Quaker meetings and the first public school system in Dayton. On May 30, 1910 Marlyn was the first born of Louis and Ethel (Ballentyne) Hadley. His sister Crystal was born in June 1912. Marlyn was always interested in education and graduated from Dayton High School in 1928. His first job was in Dallas at Gerlinger’s Machine Shop. His curious mind made his adventurous and he saved his money and traveled to Chicago for the 1933 Century of Progress World’s fair. He was very active Christian Endeavor, became a Christian, and attended the Turner Christian Convention every summer. It was there he met Hazel Utterback. He courted her by riding his bicycle to her home on the back roads. They married Nov. 8, 1936 at the Spring Valley Church in Zena where her family attended. Their wedding was the second one performed there after the church was built. They soon moved to Dallas, Oregon, and it was during those years their three sons were born.
Most of Marlyn’s learning after high school was self taught and the jobs he had allowed him to use his abilities to solve problems. He used to say that “if you didn’t have a part, you make it, and then you make it work.” In 1942, he moved his family to Kernville and ran a small store and the drawbridge at the Siletz River. After the war he returned to Dallas and went back to work at Gerlinger’s. The willingness to learn new things found him in West Salem and he opened a service station with his brother-in-law, Vic Utterback. The family became active in Court Street Christian Church. He was always learning new things and became a millwright and worked at the saw mill in West Salem. Four years later he built a home in Keizer and began working at Salem Iron Works. In 1955 he moved the family to Newport and worked as a millwright, machinist and electrician. It was there he heard of a job at the Bureau of Mines in Albany and he began working there, until Wah Chang opened where he became the supervisor of the maintenance department, where he worked for 10 years. In the fall of 1966 he moved back to Salem to begin teaching at Chemeketa Community College, teaching machine shop and welding.
His desire was to pass on some of his knowledge in areas that were not in text books, and his desire was to encourage young students to learn a trade.
Marlyn was a member of the Salem Geology Club, the Knife and Fork Club, a volunteer at the Salem Library, a life long member of the Masons, and was a charter member of the Steam Fiends. In the early 1960‘s, with the boys all married and out of the house, he started a hobby in the garage with the purchase of a model steam engine. After studying it he decided to try to build one of his own and that was the start. He built many engines from only a photo and the information he read about it. The hobby took him to London in 1972 to see some steam engines and in 1976 a road trip around the United States to the Smithsonian and then to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. That hobby kept his mind and hands busy for years, and he delighted in showing his work at grade schools, the Salem Public Library, Chemeketa, Oregon State, and of course the Steam Up in Brooks each summer. Every year people came to see him and to see what new engine he had worked on, some saying that was the highlight of the show. He continued to make models until 2003 when his eyesight began to fail, but did not miss a steam show. He also loved to travel and learn new things, so when his son Macy moved to Bend he and Hazel spent many hours hiking in the area with the grandkids. He also traveled to Israel with his son Darel and to the Philippines with his son, Allan.
Preceding him in death were Hazel, his wife of 58 years; his sister Crystal, and son Macy. He is survived by his sons, Allan and wife Myrna of Corvallis, and Darel and wife Anna of Salem; daughter-in-law Carolyn of Salem; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-grandchild.
Visitation will be Friday, Sept. 22nd from 3-7 PM at City View Funeral Home, Salem, Ore. A memorial service will be held at Court Street Christian Church on Sunday, Sept. 24th, at 4:00 PM. Private family interment will be in Zena Cemetery. In Lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution in his name to Antique Power Land at Brooks, Oregon (mail to 3995 Brooklake Rd. NE, Brooks, OR 97303), or the building fund at Court Street Christian Church. Arrangements are by City View Funeral Home.
Statesman Journal, (Salem, Oregon) September 17, 2006

INSCRIPTION: 

Hadley
Marlyn M.
1910 - 2006
Married
Nov. 8, 1936
[shares marker with Hazel]

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs

ODI

1920 OR CENSUS (Yamhill Co, Dayton, ED 447, sheet 7B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Dallas, ED 42, sheet 11A)

Oregon Marriage Index

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Dallas, ED 27-9, sheet 5B)
SJ 17 Sept 2006

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