Donald Edgar COPLEY

  General Notes:

Photo: Donald Edgar Copley, 1903-1984, appears in this black-white photo with his wife Margaret (called "Marge"), 1907-1987, and their children. The sons, counter clockwise, are Donald Edward Copley ("Don"), 1926-1997; James Fredrick Copley ("Jim"), 1928-1977; and Robert Dwight Copley ("Bud"), 1930-1971. Held by Marge is her infant daughter, living in 2007.
From Roberta Strutt Copley (1926-2005)


1903 BIRTH of Donald Edgar Copley ("Don, Sr.")

Donald was born in New Plymouth, Canyon County, Idaho, perhaps at Happy Hollow Ranch owned by his aunt, Sarah "Emma" Jane Allum Hill; Emma attended his birth

1910 CENSUS, Idaho, Custer County, Lemhi National Forest Reserve (Donald, age 6, with divorced mother "Pearl Copley")

1920 CENSUS, California, Glenn County, Greenwood Precinct ("Donald Copley," age 16, is in the household of his remarried mother Pearl and her husband, H. J. Borneman)

1921 DEATH of grandfather, John Supler Allum

1920s MARRIAGE of Donald Edgar Copley to first wife, Mabel S. Newman

1925 DIVORCE of Donald Edgar Copley and first wife, Mabel S. (Newman) Copley

1925 MARRIAGE of Donald Edgar Copley to second wife, Margaret May Moraine on October 29 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa by Rev. Henry DeLong

1923 DEATH of grandmother, Margaret Ann (Loar) Allum

1930 CENSUS, California, Humboldt County, Eureka Precinct, Eurkea ("Donald E.," age 26, "Salesman, Specialty")

1960 DEATH of father, Stephen D. Copley

1963 DEATH of mother, Elizabeth Pearl (Allum) (Quaintance) (Copley) Borneman

1984 DEATH, Donald Edgar Copley, at 80 years 2 months 6 days

Donald was cremated, and his ashes were placed atop the grave of his son, James Frederick Copley, who had died in 1977

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1987 DEATH of wife, Margaret May (Moraine) Copley, at 80 years 8 months 18 days



MILITARY SERVICE (Donald): Private, U. S. Army, October 28, 1920 to July 14, 1921




BOOK: THE LOAR GENEALOGY with Cognate Branches, 1774-1947, by Emma Loar Gaddis, Manson, Iowa, Edward Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor Michigan, 1949, page 216:

Donald Edgar Copley, born December 9, 1903, at New Plymouth, Idaho. He married Margaret May Moraine, born April 10, 1907, in Omaha, Nebraska. Religious faith is the Church of Christ. Occupation is truck driving. In 1943, he is working in a Defense plant in Vallejo, Calif.




MARRIAGE (Donald and first wife Mabel) from an undocumented newspaper:

MABEL NEWMAN WEDS DONALD COPLEY

At a quiet wedding at the Christian Church at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Mabel Newman became the bride of Donald Copley. They were attended by Misses Grace Kukemo and Alice Borneman. Both young people are residents of this city. Miss Newman is the daughter of Mrs. Hilma Newman of 635 W. Buhne Street and has for the past 6 months been in the employ of a local real estate office.




ANNIVERSARY (Donald and second wife Margaret) from an undocumented 1975 newspaper:

Copleys Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Copley, Sr., now of Clearlake Highlands, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Oct. 29. Formerly of Vallejo and Napa, they were married on that datein 1925 in Omaha, Neb.

The early years of their marriage were spent in Eureka and then in 1942 the Copleys moved to Vallejo, then later to Napa. After Mr. Copley retired from Mare Island they chose Clearlake Highlands as their home and are active members of the Moose Lodge and Grange there.

Donald worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard --DeeAnna




DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT (Margaret) from WICHITA EAGLE, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, December 29, 1987:

MARGARET M. COPLEY, 80, of 1529 E. Fortuna, homemaker, died Monday, Dec. 28, 1987. Private service was held.




CONTRIBUTOR:

Roberta Strutt Copley (1926-2005)

Donald married Mabel S. NEWMAN in (Probably) Eureka, Humboldt County, California.

Donald next married Margaret May MORAINE, daughter of William Frederick MORAINE and Margaret May SMITH, on October 29, 1925 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. (Margaret May MORAINE was born on April 10, 1907 in Fort Crook, Sarpy County, Nebraska, died on December 28, 1987 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and was buried in Cremated.)