DOOLEY, IVAN AND MARIE

Ivan W. Dooley was born to Wilfred and Adel Dooley April 3, 1907 in Lawrence, Nebraska. He attended school in Bloom-ington, Nebraska until the 8th grade. He helped his Dad out down there until around 1930, when he moved to the Sandhills at Mullen. Arriving there he worked for his brother-in-law Ralph Robinson and was later employed by the State of Nebraska.

It was a few short years later that he met Edna Marie Boyer who was born to Willie and Nellie Boyer on October 1, 1912 in Mullen. She was teaching school north of Mullen and they were married on April 5, 1934. That fall they moved 9 miles north of Mullen on the HUB ranch which belonged to Nellie Boyer Isom. Twenty-three years were spent out there, and 5 children were born to this union. Three girls, Alice, Beth, and Trila, then 8 years later two boys, Marlan and Ronald.

In the spring of 1958, the bought the Soo-Paw Motel at Trenton, Nebraska and man-aged it until Ivan's death on December 25, 1964. Marie sold the motel, bought a home back in Mullen and she and the boys moved back in August of 1965. She did cleaning at the Pioneer Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home and some private homes for several years. Marie passed away on October 16, 1985. Both Ivan and Marie succumbed to cancer.

Their daughter Alice, married Douglas Phipps and they are ranchers. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. Both works for Pan Am Airlines in Miami, Florida. Her home is in Tampa with husband Judd Hammond, Jr. They have 1 daughter. Trila and her husband Mervin Schoenberg farm northeast of Padroni, Colorado and have 2 children. Marlan married Linda Little and they have 3 daughters. They live at McCook, Nebraska and he works for Food Services of America. Ronald, his wife Leann Long, and 2 children live southwest of Burns, Wyoming. He's a Boiler Operator at Francis E, Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne.