JOANNE LORENE HARTLEY

Joanne Lorene Hartley died June 12, 2005, at Valley Hospital in Palmer, after an extended illness.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at the United Protestant Presbyterian Church, 713 Denali St., Palmer.

A 70-year resident of Alaska, Mrs. Hartley was born Feb. 26, 1931, in Detroit and first arrived in Palmer in May 1935 as a member of the Darrell Frank family, among the original Matanuska Valley colonists. She attended Palmer Territorial Schools and, in 1949, married James N. Hartley.

In the early 1950s, the Hartleys moved to Kenai, where they raised their family. Mrs. Hartley helped her husband run the Hartley department store and a car dealership in Kenai. The family also spent time commercial fishing at Kalgin Island and Silver Salmon Creek.

In the mid-1960s, members of the Hartley family returned to their present-day home on Finger Lake, where Mrs. Hartley enjoyed homemaking and gardening and visiting with relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James N. Hartley; brother, Randall Frank and grandson, Mark O. Moffitt.

She is survived by her daughters and their spouses, Katherine Hartley, Joni Hartley and Fritz Caulkins of Palmer and Karen and Jim Bielefeld of Kenai; son, James A. Hartley, and his wife, Susan, of Palmer; daughter-in-law, Alena Bodeman of Chugiak; sister, Nancy Colbeth of Palmer; brothers, David Frank of Ohio and Darrell Frank and his wife, Sandi, of Hawaii; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Sharon Frank, Lee and Maralyn Hartley and Bob and Marcella Hartley, all of Palmer; grandchildren and their families, Tammy Hodson , Scott Bridges, Jessica Marden, Jennifer Sholly, Jim Stephens, Justin Hermens, Alan Hartley and Kristina Hartley, and great-grandchildren, Morgan, Thomas, Julia, Austin and Colton and many nieces and nephews.