Virginia Hadley

RICHLAND ? Virginia Hadley, 85, of Richland, died Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, in Great River Medical Center in Burlington.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 31, at the Richland United Methodist Church with the Rev. Carl Benge officiating. Burial will be in Richland Friends Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Friday at Gould Funeral Home in Richland. Memorials for Richland United Methodist Church, Richland First Responders, or the Richland Public Library may be left at the funeral home or the church, or mailed to Dixie Dyer at 307 Library Lane, Streamwood, IL 60107-3034. Gould Funeral Home of Richland is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Hadley was born near Richland on a farm now under Lake Darling, the daughter of Omer Daniel and Rachel Wealthy (Rudolph) Long. She married Raymond C. Hadley on June 4, 1954, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

She grew up on a farm near Rubio, attended country school, and graduated from Richland High School in 1948. She began her college career at Parsons College in Fairfield that fall and graduated in 1962. She continued her learning by attending classes at Parsons, William Penn University, University of Iowa, and Northeast Missouri State University, now named Truman State University. She began a 43-year teaching career in 1950 at a small country school near home. She also taught at Pleasant Plain and Richland. She retired in 1993 but continued as a substitute teacher for some time. Much of her time revolved around her teaching career, but she always had time to support Raymond and care for her family. She was an active member of the Richland United Methodist Church and the Richland Library Board, and was a Sunday school teacher. She worked as an election judge for several years, was manager of Cypress Village, and was a member of the National Education Association.

Surviving are one daughter, Dixie Dyer and husband Dan of Streamwood, Illinois; one sister, Violet Archer and husband Charles of Agency; one brother, Donald Long and wife Jo Ann of Rubio; one sister-in-law, Jeanet Long of Geneseo, Illinois; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, on Oct. 6, 2009; and four brothers, Arthur, Lester, Richard, and Howard Long.