John Wesley Colley
born: about 1883 in Dickenson County, VA
died: about 6 Feb 1955 in Bend, Deschutes, OR
father: UNK
mother: UNK
married: Nancy May Burnett or Bernett or Brunett (died abt 1963)
Brothers:
Richard Colley, Sweet Home, OR
Josh Colley, Great Falls, MT
Children:
Beulah Estella (Colley) Berglund or Queener (1912-1986)
Francis Olive (Colley) Anderson or Middleton (1915-1993)
Dorothy (Colly) Lovrovich
Mrs. Thomas W. (Colly) Tate
Mrs. Sherman Marvin (Colly) Telford
Obituary
BEND BULLETIN Bend, Oregon 7 Feb 1955
John W. Colley Dies on Sunday
John Wesley Colley, 72, of 2422 E 2nd street, died Sunday at Sunset Home where he had been under nursing care for a short time.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2pm at the Niswonger-Winslow chapel.
Mr. Colley was a native of Dickenson county, Virginia. He is survived by his wife Nancy May and five daughters. Mrs. Sherman Telford of Redmond and the following in Washington: Mrs. T. W. Tate, Gig Harbor; Mrs. H. Queener, Port Angeles; Mrs. J. R. Middleton, Shelton; Mrs. Dorothy Lovrovich, Bellevue. There are also 18 grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and two brothers, Richard Colley, Sweet Home OR and Josh Colley, Great Falls, Mont.
Reverend C. Wesley Jones of the Church of the Nazarene will officiate at the funeral.
I have no true blood relationship with this family. I believe that my mother had left me with the John W. Colley family in Bend, OR. but information has recently come to light to indicate differently.
I lived with this family through the death of John W. Colley in 1955. Nancy M. then moved us to Washington state into the area where 4 of her 5 daughters lived, part of the time in Port Angeles, WA and part
in Shelton, WA. She became ill and was placed in a rest home around 1959 and I went to live in a foster home in May 1959. A few years later, approx. 1962, she died in a rest home in Bremerton, WA
In 1959 when I went to live in the foster home of John Spiker, Shelton, WA, my baby book was transfered. I had access to it and noticed several instances of items crossed out but was unable to make sense of it with
the information then available.
Moving up to the year 2001, I had my baby book returned to me. Again I noticed the items crossed out but still did not have the information available to explain them. In the process of examining my own
family roots, I did a quick check of the Colley family with what little information I had and the nice people at the Deschutes County Historical Society sent me a E-mail copy of John W. Colly's obituary from 1955
listing his survivors. Still nothing clicked until a few months later when I took another look at my baby book and found the crossed out names and recognized them.
It appears that I spent most of my first year (1947/1948) with the Telford family. Quite possibly since I was premature at 4 lbs. 4 ozs. and rather sickly during that year (also they had 4 other children
to handle) they decided it was best that I moved in with her mother's family, the John W. Colley family.
I would like to regain contact with this family to confirm some of this information. If you are a researcher into the Colley or Telford names and have any information concerning any of these individuals,
I would like to chat!
ottotune@hotmail.com
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John W. Colley Dies on Sunday
John Wesley Colley, 72, of 2422 E 2nd street, died Sunday at Sunset Home where he had been under nursing care for a short time.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2pm at the Niswonger-Winslow chapel.
Mr. Colley was a native of Dickenson county, Virginia. He is survived by his wife Nancy May and five daughters. Mrs. Sherman Telford of Redmond and the following in Washington: Mrs. T. W. Tate, Gig Harbor; Mrs. H. Queener, Port Angeles; Mrs. J. R. Middleton, Shelton; Mrs. Dorothy Lovrovich, Bellevue. There are also 18 grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and two brothers, Richard Colley, Sweet Home OR and Josh Colley, Great Falls, Mont.
Reverend C. Wesley Jones of the Church of the Nazarene will officiate at the funeral.
I have no true blood relationship with this family. I believe that my mother had left me with the John W. Colley family in Bend, OR. but information has recently come to light to indicate differently.
I lived with this family through the death of John W. Colley in 1955. Nancy M. then moved us to Washington state into the area where 4 of her 5 daughters lived, part of the time in Port Angeles, WA and part
in Shelton, WA. She became ill and was placed in a rest home around 1959 and I went to live in a foster home in May 1959. A few years later, approx. 1962, she died in a rest home in Bremerton, WA
In 1959 when I went to live in the foster home of John Spiker, Shelton, WA, my baby book was transfered. I had access to it and noticed several instances of items crossed out but was unable to make sense of it with
the information then available.
Moving up to the year 2001, I had my baby book returned to me. Again I noticed the items crossed out but still did not have the information available to explain them. In the process of examining my own
family roots, I did a quick check of the Colley family with what little information I had and the nice people at the Deschutes County Historical Society sent me a E-mail copy of John W. Colly's obituary from 1955
listing his survivors. Still nothing clicked until a few months later when I took another look at my baby book and found the crossed out names and recognized them.
It appears that I spent most of my first year (1947/1948) with the Telford family. Quite possibly since I was premature at 4 lbs. 4 ozs. and rather sickly during that year (also they had 4 other children
to handle) they decided it was best that I moved in with her mother's family, the John W. Colley family.
I would like to regain contact with this family to confirm some of this information. If you are a researcher into the Colley or Telford names and have any information concerning any of these individuals,
I would like to chat!
ottotune@hotmail.com
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