OLNEY, HALLOR, ROWELL


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Posted by Carolyn Schwab on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 10:21:29 :

San Anselmo Herald
Thursday, June 26, 1941
page 1

CORA OLNEY

Last rites for Mrs. CORA OLNEY, wife of A.C. OLNEY, president of Marin Junior College, were held Tuesday under the direction of Keaton's Mortuary, San Rafael.

Mrs. OLNEY died Saturday at her home in Kentfield. She was born in Bloomington, IL, in 1869. She attended school at Illinois State Normal University and the University of Michigan. After a year in Washington DC, where her father, JONATHAN H. ROWELL, was a member of Congress, she came to California. For awhile she taught school at Fresno High where Mr. OLNEY was then principal. The couple married in 1902.

Mrs. OLNEY is survived by her husband; 3 children, MARGARET OLNEY, Mill Valley teacher; CORA DOROTHY OLNEY, San Mateo assistant public librarian; and Mrs. C.H. HALLOR, wife of a U.S. Army Captain; a sister, LAURA M. ROWELL of Berkeley; and Dr. LAWRENCE W. ROWELL of Chicago.
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