Marcella Haley

MARCELLA HALEY, was welcomed into the loving arms of her Lord on May 16, 2005. Born Marcella Dean Hosler in Cordell, Oklahoma on January 13, 1925, she was one of nine children in one of the town's poorest families. She sacrificed ambitions of college in order to work and contribute pay to her mother. Her jobs included a stint at the FHA in Oklahoma City where she met and married Sidney Haley in 1952. Three sons followed. In her years as a "company wife" Sid's work in the oil industry led to regularly packing and unpacking boxes in Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska, Chicago, and Houston. Throughout it all she knit the family together in her inimitable style, sewing clothes, shopping on a budget, baking elaborate birthday cakes, being a Den Mother, preparing picnic lunches, raising up lawns in new yards, always making the most out of whatever she had to make her family's life the best it could be. On her and Sid's 50th wedding anniversary April 5, 2002, her sons lovingly characterized her as a "domestic goddess" and she was. Starting with Sid's retirement she enjoyed trips to Europe and to their second home in Breckenridge, Colorado, as well as joining him in his activities with the 80th Infantry Division's veterans group of which she was a past president of the Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a great and enthusiastic player of contract rummy and relished the words "last card." She was a member of the Bammel Church of Christ and the 39ers Sunday School class. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Sid; son Al and wife Joyce of Abilene, Texas; son Curry and wife Cindy of Houston; son Keith and wife Trish of Chugiak, Alaska; grandchildren Michael, John and Cole Haley; her sisters Violet Lindsey, Dorothy Welch, Juanita Horn, Jeanice Morgan; and brother G. B. Hosler. Services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Friday, May 20, 2005 in the Chapel of Brookside Funeral Home, Champions with interment to follow at Houston National Veterans Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday evening at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to American Lung Association of Texas, 2425 West Loop South, Suite 330, Houston, TX 77027-4207.