Iowa, U.S., Births (series) 1880-1904, 1921-1944 and Delayed Births (series), 1856-1940
Name: Ida May Flagler
Birth Date: 10 May 1901
Birth Place: [Lime Springs], Howard [County], Iowa, USA
Father: Ira L Flagler
Mother: Della Webster
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The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, 8 May 1985
Ida May Daly, 84
ACTIVIST FOR HANDICAPPED DIDN'T LET WHEELCHAIR STOP HER
Ida May Daly would have been 84 years old on Friday, an event that would have surprised many of the people she grew up with in Iowa, but something that thousands in Washington state are thankful happened
When Ida May Daly was 3 years old, her parents were told she had muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles. The prognosis wasn't good, and it would eventually mean life in a wheelchair.
But she would say later that ''I knew then that my life was to be just what I could make it from day-to-day. I would never marry, I told myself, and I must find a way to become independent.''
She also said that if she were ever confined to a wheelchair because of her illness, she would kill herself.
But she was wrong on those counts. Daly went into a wheelchair when she was 30. She did get married. And she did become independent, using that independence to inspire other handicapped people and to fight for their independence throughout Washington state as well as the nation.
That spirit will be honored tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in a funeral service at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church, 2400 N.W. 85th St., with speeches from public officials as well as the people who were touched by Daly's determination to see that the handicapped were treated fairly. She died April 30 at Group Health Hospital.
Ida May Daly, born in *Cedar Rapids [sic], Iowa, on May 10, 1901, collected awards from civic leaders to U.S. presidents for her work with the handicapped. Some of the awards she wasn't able to collect from the stage because she was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't make it to the stage. But a wheelchair had never been an obstacle in her life.
A test of her determination was just getting out of high school. Because it was so difficult for Daly to get up the stairs to the school and because the illness caused her to be out of school for months at a time, it took her almost 12 years to complete the three years of high school. She was 28 years old when she graduated.
After finishing high school, she enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis, but could take only classes offered on the first floor because she was too weak from the disease to climb the stairs. During the Depression, she and her family moved to Seattle.
When her family moved to Central Washington to manage a fruit ranch, Daly decided to stay in Seattle.
She began by renovating a four-unit apartment house she had purchased, living off the rental income. At the same time, she began painting oil pictures. But her main work was with the handicapped, especially those 40 to 60 years old.
''They are older, though still handicapped,'' she said.
''Brothers and sisters have married and moved away. Parents who have cared for them have died. In a sense they have become a forgotten and neglected portion of the human race.''
At first, Daly said she avoided handicapped people on ''the notion that my mind would weaken like my muscles if I didn't associate with able-bodied people.'' But that changed in the mid-1950s when she volunteered for the Indoor Sports Club as the publicist. She dialed the phone by putting a stick in her mouth and then talked telephone engineers into inventing a device that allowed her to use her elbows to dial.
Before long she was the club president and the club had a building in Rainier Valley that opened in 1957 and was called the Seattle Handicapped Center. Within a few years, the membership grew to more than 300, making it the largest handicapped club in the country.
She met and married Seattle pharmacist Frank Daly. For the next 14 years, the Dalys traveled around the world and worked for the handicapped. In 1963, she went to Europe under a program sponsored by the former President Dwight Eisenhower's People-to-People program.
Following her husband's death, she lobbied for better access to public places for the handicapped. Part of her dream was to put together a building for handicapped people and in 1971 the seven-story, 150-unit, $2.5-million Center Park for the handicapped was opened in Seattle.
Although her illness was becoming worse _ she stopped using paintbrushes because her hands were too weak to hold them _ she continued to work for the handicapped. She became the executive director of Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, which offered arts and crafts for the disabled.
And over the years she was honored in this state and across the nation for her work. In 1960 and 1965, she received the President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped award. Then she received the Governor's Award for Handicapped American of the Year, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Distinguished Service to the Community and the Woman of Achievement from the Matrix Table.
Daly is survived by a sister, Marion Hunter of Bremerton, and a brother, Charles Flagler of LaConia, N.H.
The family suggests memorials be made to Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, 5014 12th Ave. N.E., Seattle.
Name: Ida May Flagler
Birth Date: 10 May 1901
Birth Place: [Lime Springs], Howard [County], Iowa, USA
Father: Ira L Flagler
Mother: Della Webster
===
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, 8 May 1985
Ida May Daly, 84
ACTIVIST FOR HANDICAPPED DIDN'T LET WHEELCHAIR STOP HER
Ida May Daly would have been 84 years old on Friday, an event that would have surprised many of the people she grew up with in Iowa, but something that thousands in Washington state are thankful happened
When Ida May Daly was 3 years old, her parents were told she had muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles. The prognosis wasn't good, and it would eventually mean life in a wheelchair.
But she would say later that ''I knew then that my life was to be just what I could make it from day-to-day. I would never marry, I told myself, and I must find a way to become independent.''
She also said that if she were ever confined to a wheelchair because of her illness, she would kill herself.
But she was wrong on those counts. Daly went into a wheelchair when she was 30. She did get married. And she did become independent, using that independence to inspire other handicapped people and to fight for their independence throughout Washington state as well as the nation.
That spirit will be honored tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in a funeral service at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church, 2400 N.W. 85th St., with speeches from public officials as well as the people who were touched by Daly's determination to see that the handicapped were treated fairly. She died April 30 at Group Health Hospital.
Ida May Daly, born in *Cedar Rapids [sic], Iowa, on May 10, 1901, collected awards from civic leaders to U.S. presidents for her work with the handicapped. Some of the awards she wasn't able to collect from the stage because she was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't make it to the stage. But a wheelchair had never been an obstacle in her life.
A test of her determination was just getting out of high school. Because it was so difficult for Daly to get up the stairs to the school and because the illness caused her to be out of school for months at a time, it took her almost 12 years to complete the three years of high school. She was 28 years old when she graduated.
After finishing high school, she enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis, but could take only classes offered on the first floor because she was too weak from the disease to climb the stairs. During the Depression, she and her family moved to Seattle.
When her family moved to Central Washington to manage a fruit ranch, Daly decided to stay in Seattle.
She began by renovating a four-unit apartment house she had purchased, living off the rental income. At the same time, she began painting oil pictures. But her main work was with the handicapped, especially those 40 to 60 years old.
''They are older, though still handicapped,'' she said.
''Brothers and sisters have married and moved away. Parents who have cared for them have died. In a sense they have become a forgotten and neglected portion of the human race.''
At first, Daly said she avoided handicapped people on ''the notion that my mind would weaken like my muscles if I didn't associate with able-bodied people.'' But that changed in the mid-1950s when she volunteered for the Indoor Sports Club as the publicist. She dialed the phone by putting a stick in her mouth and then talked telephone engineers into inventing a device that allowed her to use her elbows to dial.
Before long she was the club president and the club had a building in Rainier Valley that opened in 1957 and was called the Seattle Handicapped Center. Within a few years, the membership grew to more than 300, making it the largest handicapped club in the country.
She met and married Seattle pharmacist Frank Daly. For the next 14 years, the Dalys traveled around the world and worked for the handicapped. In 1963, she went to Europe under a program sponsored by the former President Dwight Eisenhower's People-to-People program.
Following her husband's death, she lobbied for better access to public places for the handicapped. Part of her dream was to put together a building for handicapped people and in 1971 the seven-story, 150-unit, $2.5-million Center Park for the handicapped was opened in Seattle.
Although her illness was becoming worse _ she stopped using paintbrushes because her hands were too weak to hold them _ she continued to work for the handicapped. She became the executive director of Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, which offered arts and crafts for the disabled.
And over the years she was honored in this state and across the nation for her work. In 1960 and 1965, she received the President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped award. Then she received the Governor's Award for Handicapped American of the Year, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Distinguished Service to the Community and the Woman of Achievement from the Matrix Table.
Daly is survived by a sister, Marion Hunter of Bremerton, and a brother, Charles Flagler of LaConia, N.H.
The family suggests memorials be made to Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, 5014 12th Ave. N.E., Seattle.
Iowa, U.S., Births (series) 1880-1904, 1921-1944 and Delayed Births (series), 1856-1940
Name: Ida May Flagler
Birth Date: 10 May 1901
Birth Place: [Lime Springs], Howard [County], Iowa, USA
Father: Ira L Flagler
Mother: Della Webster
===
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, 8 May 1985
Ida May Daly, 84
ACTIVIST FOR HANDICAPPED DIDN'T LET WHEELCHAIR STOP HER
Ida May Daly would have been 84 years old on Friday, an event that would have surprised many of the people she grew up with in Iowa, but something that thousands in Washington state are thankful happened
When Ida May Daly was 3 years old, her parents were told she had muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles. The prognosis wasn't good, and it would eventually mean life in a wheelchair.
But she would say later that ''I knew then that my life was to be just what I could make it from day-to-day. I would never marry, I told myself, and I must find a way to become independent.''
She also said that if she were ever confined to a wheelchair because of her illness, she would kill herself.
But she was wrong on those counts. Daly went into a wheelchair when she was 30. She did get married. And she did become independent, using that independence to inspire other handicapped people and to fight for their independence throughout Washington state as well as the nation.
That spirit will be honored tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in a funeral service at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church, 2400 N.W. 85th St., with speeches from public officials as well as the people who were touched by Daly's determination to see that the handicapped were treated fairly. She died April 30 at Group Health Hospital.
Ida May Daly, born in *Cedar Rapids [sic], Iowa, on May 10, 1901, collected awards from civic leaders to U.S. presidents for her work with the handicapped. Some of the awards she wasn't able to collect from the stage because she was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't make it to the stage. But a wheelchair had never been an obstacle in her life.
A test of her determination was just getting out of high school. Because it was so difficult for Daly to get up the stairs to the school and because the illness caused her to be out of school for months at a time, it took her almost 12 years to complete the three years of high school. She was 28 years old when she graduated.
After finishing high school, she enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis, but could take only classes offered on the first floor because she was too weak from the disease to climb the stairs. During the Depression, she and her family moved to Seattle.
When her family moved to Central Washington to manage a fruit ranch, Daly decided to stay in Seattle.
She began by renovating a four-unit apartment house she had purchased, living off the rental income. At the same time, she began painting oil pictures. But her main work was with the handicapped, especially those 40 to 60 years old.
''They are older, though still handicapped,'' she said.
''Brothers and sisters have married and moved away. Parents who have cared for them have died. In a sense they have become a forgotten and neglected portion of the human race.''
At first, Daly said she avoided handicapped people on ''the notion that my mind would weaken like my muscles if I didn't associate with able-bodied people.'' But that changed in the mid-1950s when she volunteered for the Indoor Sports Club as the publicist. She dialed the phone by putting a stick in her mouth and then talked telephone engineers into inventing a device that allowed her to use her elbows to dial.
Before long she was the club president and the club had a building in Rainier Valley that opened in 1957 and was called the Seattle Handicapped Center. Within a few years, the membership grew to more than 300, making it the largest handicapped club in the country.
She met and married Seattle pharmacist Frank Daly. For the next 14 years, the Dalys traveled around the world and worked for the handicapped. In 1963, she went to Europe under a program sponsored by the former President Dwight Eisenhower's People-to-People program.
Following her husband's death, she lobbied for better access to public places for the handicapped. Part of her dream was to put together a building for handicapped people and in 1971 the seven-story, 150-unit, $2.5-million Center Park for the handicapped was opened in Seattle.
Although her illness was becoming worse _ she stopped using paintbrushes because her hands were too weak to hold them _ she continued to work for the handicapped. She became the executive director of Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, which offered arts and crafts for the disabled.
And over the years she was honored in this state and across the nation for her work. In 1960 and 1965, she received the President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped award. Then she received the Governor's Award for Handicapped American of the Year, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Distinguished Service to the Community and the Woman of Achievement from the Matrix Table.
Daly is survived by a sister, Marion Hunter of Bremerton, and a brother, Charles Flagler of LaConia, N.H.
The family suggests memorials be made to Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, 5014 12th Ave. N.E., Seattle.
Name: Ida May Flagler
Birth Date: 10 May 1901
Birth Place: [Lime Springs], Howard [County], Iowa, USA
Father: Ira L Flagler
Mother: Della Webster
===
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Washington
Wednesday, 8 May 1985
Ida May Daly, 84
ACTIVIST FOR HANDICAPPED DIDN'T LET WHEELCHAIR STOP HER
Ida May Daly would have been 84 years old on Friday, an event that would have surprised many of the people she grew up with in Iowa, but something that thousands in Washington state are thankful happened
When Ida May Daly was 3 years old, her parents were told she had muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles. The prognosis wasn't good, and it would eventually mean life in a wheelchair.
But she would say later that ''I knew then that my life was to be just what I could make it from day-to-day. I would never marry, I told myself, and I must find a way to become independent.''
She also said that if she were ever confined to a wheelchair because of her illness, she would kill herself.
But she was wrong on those counts. Daly went into a wheelchair when she was 30. She did get married. And she did become independent, using that independence to inspire other handicapped people and to fight for their independence throughout Washington state as well as the nation.
That spirit will be honored tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in a funeral service at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church, 2400 N.W. 85th St., with speeches from public officials as well as the people who were touched by Daly's determination to see that the handicapped were treated fairly. She died April 30 at Group Health Hospital.
Ida May Daly, born in *Cedar Rapids [sic], Iowa, on May 10, 1901, collected awards from civic leaders to U.S. presidents for her work with the handicapped. Some of the awards she wasn't able to collect from the stage because she was confined to a wheelchair and couldn't make it to the stage. But a wheelchair had never been an obstacle in her life.
A test of her determination was just getting out of high school. Because it was so difficult for Daly to get up the stairs to the school and because the illness caused her to be out of school for months at a time, it took her almost 12 years to complete the three years of high school. She was 28 years old when she graduated.
After finishing high school, she enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis, but could take only classes offered on the first floor because she was too weak from the disease to climb the stairs. During the Depression, she and her family moved to Seattle.
When her family moved to Central Washington to manage a fruit ranch, Daly decided to stay in Seattle.
She began by renovating a four-unit apartment house she had purchased, living off the rental income. At the same time, she began painting oil pictures. But her main work was with the handicapped, especially those 40 to 60 years old.
''They are older, though still handicapped,'' she said.
''Brothers and sisters have married and moved away. Parents who have cared for them have died. In a sense they have become a forgotten and neglected portion of the human race.''
At first, Daly said she avoided handicapped people on ''the notion that my mind would weaken like my muscles if I didn't associate with able-bodied people.'' But that changed in the mid-1950s when she volunteered for the Indoor Sports Club as the publicist. She dialed the phone by putting a stick in her mouth and then talked telephone engineers into inventing a device that allowed her to use her elbows to dial.
Before long she was the club president and the club had a building in Rainier Valley that opened in 1957 and was called the Seattle Handicapped Center. Within a few years, the membership grew to more than 300, making it the largest handicapped club in the country.
She met and married Seattle pharmacist Frank Daly. For the next 14 years, the Dalys traveled around the world and worked for the handicapped. In 1963, she went to Europe under a program sponsored by the former President Dwight Eisenhower's People-to-People program.
Following her husband's death, she lobbied for better access to public places for the handicapped. Part of her dream was to put together a building for handicapped people and in 1971 the seven-story, 150-unit, $2.5-million Center Park for the handicapped was opened in Seattle.
Although her illness was becoming worse _ she stopped using paintbrushes because her hands were too weak to hold them _ she continued to work for the handicapped. She became the executive director of Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, which offered arts and crafts for the disabled.
And over the years she was honored in this state and across the nation for her work. In 1960 and 1965, she received the President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped award. Then she received the Governor's Award for Handicapped American of the Year, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Distinguished Service to the Community and the Woman of Achievement from the Matrix Table.
Daly is survived by a sister, Marion Hunter of Bremerton, and a brother, Charles Flagler of LaConia, N.H.
The family suggests memorials be made to Creative Activities for the Physically Disabled, 5014 12th Ave. N.E., Seattle.
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