Donald Eugene Hartley Sr., 80, an avid traveler, completed his final journey to heaven on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after a two-year battle with cancer, at his home in Columbia surrounded by his family.
Don was born in Columbia on Dec. 4, 1935, the eldest of two sons of Alice (Dawson) and George Sidney Hartley. He attended Ridgeway Elementary, Jefferson Junior High and Hickman High School, graduating in 1953. He had fond memories of visiting his grandparents’ homes in Centralia, often riding the train between Columbia and Centralia. He had a horse that he kept at the farm of his grandpa John Hartley. While in high school, he was a Sea Scout on a ship at Lake of the Ozarks sponsored by the Columbia Daily Tribune. He also played trombone in a jazz and dance band and worked at a service station as he started his lifelong passion for automobiles.
Don studied engineering briefly at the University of Missouri. He met a nursing student from Eldon, Virginia Hanly, and they married in January 1955. They lived in Kansas City as he worked as a highway surveyor for Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Most notably, he surveyed the route for Interstate 70 between Boonville and Kansas City, and the route for the interstate highway around St. Joseph.
Don and Virginia had four children in six years: Gene, John, Larry and Laura. When a two-room apartment in central Kansas City no longer was big enough, the family moved to Gladstone in 1963. Don moved from surveying to the data processing department of HNTB, where he learned punch-card entry and other early computer skills. In 1968, he moved to United Computing Systems, a company that sold computer time-share services to other businesses.
While his sons were growing up, Don served as a Boy Scout troop leader, going on many campouts, including four treks to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He also took many canoe trips with his co-workers from UCS on the rivers of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, including the Buffalo River before it became a national river.
After his first 25-year marriage ended, he met a former classmate, Loretta Stull Petrich, at a Hickman High School reunion. He and Loretta were married in 1986 and enjoyed 30 years of marriage. They took many driving trips across the country, visiting friends and family in Florida, California, Texas and other places.
Don was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta; children: Gene Hartley Jr., John (Mary Jo) Hartley, Larry (Cindy) Hartley and Laura (Harold) Swalley; grandchildren: Cullen (Bree) Hartley, Adrienne (Nick) Pullins, Donald H. Hartley, Anna Hartley, Lindsay Jo (Tom) Swaim, Alice Hartley, Nick Hartley and Rachael Swalley; stepchildren: Beth Moise, Mark Petrich, Danny Petrich and Jennifer Baker; stepgrandchildren: Lindsay Smith, Ally, Cole, Dillon, Adam and Jordan Petrich; and brother Daryl (Ann) Hartley.
Memorial Contributions can be made to Boy Scouts of America Ozark Trails Council, 1616 S. Eastgate Ave., Springfield, Mo., 65809.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 17, at Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, with an interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Don was born in Columbia on Dec. 4, 1935, the eldest of two sons of Alice (Dawson) and George Sidney Hartley. He attended Ridgeway Elementary, Jefferson Junior High and Hickman High School, graduating in 1953. He had fond memories of visiting his grandparents’ homes in Centralia, often riding the train between Columbia and Centralia. He had a horse that he kept at the farm of his grandpa John Hartley. While in high school, he was a Sea Scout on a ship at Lake of the Ozarks sponsored by the Columbia Daily Tribune. He also played trombone in a jazz and dance band and worked at a service station as he started his lifelong passion for automobiles.
Don studied engineering briefly at the University of Missouri. He met a nursing student from Eldon, Virginia Hanly, and they married in January 1955. They lived in Kansas City as he worked as a highway surveyor for Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Most notably, he surveyed the route for Interstate 70 between Boonville and Kansas City, and the route for the interstate highway around St. Joseph.
Don and Virginia had four children in six years: Gene, John, Larry and Laura. When a two-room apartment in central Kansas City no longer was big enough, the family moved to Gladstone in 1963. Don moved from surveying to the data processing department of HNTB, where he learned punch-card entry and other early computer skills. In 1968, he moved to United Computing Systems, a company that sold computer time-share services to other businesses.
While his sons were growing up, Don served as a Boy Scout troop leader, going on many campouts, including four treks to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He also took many canoe trips with his co-workers from UCS on the rivers of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, including the Buffalo River before it became a national river.
After his first 25-year marriage ended, he met a former classmate, Loretta Stull Petrich, at a Hickman High School reunion. He and Loretta were married in 1986 and enjoyed 30 years of marriage. They took many driving trips across the country, visiting friends and family in Florida, California, Texas and other places.
Don was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta; children: Gene Hartley Jr., John (Mary Jo) Hartley, Larry (Cindy) Hartley and Laura (Harold) Swalley; grandchildren: Cullen (Bree) Hartley, Adrienne (Nick) Pullins, Donald H. Hartley, Anna Hartley, Lindsay Jo (Tom) Swaim, Alice Hartley, Nick Hartley and Rachael Swalley; stepchildren: Beth Moise, Mark Petrich, Danny Petrich and Jennifer Baker; stepgrandchildren: Lindsay Smith, Ally, Cole, Dillon, Adam and Jordan Petrich; and brother Daryl (Ann) Hartley.
Memorial Contributions can be made to Boy Scouts of America Ozark Trails Council, 1616 S. Eastgate Ave., Springfield, Mo., 65809.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 17, at Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, with an interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Donald Eugene Hartley Sr., 80, an avid traveler, completed his final journey to heaven on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after a two-year battle with cancer, at his home in Columbia surrounded by his family.
Don was born in Columbia on Dec. 4, 1935, the eldest of two sons of Alice (Dawson) and George Sidney Hartley. He attended Ridgeway Elementary, Jefferson Junior High and Hickman High School, graduating in 1953. He had fond memories of visiting his grandparents’ homes in Centralia, often riding the train between Columbia and Centralia. He had a horse that he kept at the farm of his grandpa John Hartley. While in high school, he was a Sea Scout on a ship at Lake of the Ozarks sponsored by the Columbia Daily Tribune. He also played trombone in a jazz and dance band and worked at a service station as he started his lifelong passion for automobiles.
Don studied engineering briefly at the University of Missouri. He met a nursing student from Eldon, Virginia Hanly, and they married in January 1955. They lived in Kansas City as he worked as a highway surveyor for Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Most notably, he surveyed the route for Interstate 70 between Boonville and Kansas City, and the route for the interstate highway around St. Joseph.
Don and Virginia had four children in six years: Gene, John, Larry and Laura. When a two-room apartment in central Kansas City no longer was big enough, the family moved to Gladstone in 1963. Don moved from surveying to the data processing department of HNTB, where he learned punch-card entry and other early computer skills. In 1968, he moved to United Computing Systems, a company that sold computer time-share services to other businesses.
While his sons were growing up, Don served as a Boy Scout troop leader, going on many campouts, including four treks to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He also took many canoe trips with his co-workers from UCS on the rivers of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, including the Buffalo River before it became a national river.
After his first 25-year marriage ended, he met a former classmate, Loretta Stull Petrich, at a Hickman High School reunion. He and Loretta were married in 1986 and enjoyed 30 years of marriage. They took many driving trips across the country, visiting friends and family in Florida, California, Texas and other places.
Don was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta; children: Gene Hartley Jr., John (Mary Jo) Hartley, Larry (Cindy) Hartley and Laura (Harold) Swalley; grandchildren: Cullen (Bree) Hartley, Adrienne (Nick) Pullins, Donald H. Hartley, Anna Hartley, Lindsay Jo (Tom) Swaim, Alice Hartley, Nick Hartley and Rachael Swalley; stepchildren: Beth Moise, Mark Petrich, Danny Petrich and Jennifer Baker; stepgrandchildren: Lindsay Smith, Ally, Cole, Dillon, Adam and Jordan Petrich; and brother Daryl (Ann) Hartley.
Memorial Contributions can be made to Boy Scouts of America Ozark Trails Council, 1616 S. Eastgate Ave., Springfield, Mo., 65809.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 17, at Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, with an interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Don was born in Columbia on Dec. 4, 1935, the eldest of two sons of Alice (Dawson) and George Sidney Hartley. He attended Ridgeway Elementary, Jefferson Junior High and Hickman High School, graduating in 1953. He had fond memories of visiting his grandparents’ homes in Centralia, often riding the train between Columbia and Centralia. He had a horse that he kept at the farm of his grandpa John Hartley. While in high school, he was a Sea Scout on a ship at Lake of the Ozarks sponsored by the Columbia Daily Tribune. He also played trombone in a jazz and dance band and worked at a service station as he started his lifelong passion for automobiles.
Don studied engineering briefly at the University of Missouri. He met a nursing student from Eldon, Virginia Hanly, and they married in January 1955. They lived in Kansas City as he worked as a highway surveyor for Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Most notably, he surveyed the route for Interstate 70 between Boonville and Kansas City, and the route for the interstate highway around St. Joseph.
Don and Virginia had four children in six years: Gene, John, Larry and Laura. When a two-room apartment in central Kansas City no longer was big enough, the family moved to Gladstone in 1963. Don moved from surveying to the data processing department of HNTB, where he learned punch-card entry and other early computer skills. In 1968, he moved to United Computing Systems, a company that sold computer time-share services to other businesses.
While his sons were growing up, Don served as a Boy Scout troop leader, going on many campouts, including four treks to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He also took many canoe trips with his co-workers from UCS on the rivers of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, including the Buffalo River before it became a national river.
After his first 25-year marriage ended, he met a former classmate, Loretta Stull Petrich, at a Hickman High School reunion. He and Loretta were married in 1986 and enjoyed 30 years of marriage. They took many driving trips across the country, visiting friends and family in Florida, California, Texas and other places.
Don was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta; children: Gene Hartley Jr., John (Mary Jo) Hartley, Larry (Cindy) Hartley and Laura (Harold) Swalley; grandchildren: Cullen (Bree) Hartley, Adrienne (Nick) Pullins, Donald H. Hartley, Anna Hartley, Lindsay Jo (Tom) Swaim, Alice Hartley, Nick Hartley and Rachael Swalley; stepchildren: Beth Moise, Mark Petrich, Danny Petrich and Jennifer Baker; stepgrandchildren: Lindsay Smith, Ally, Cole, Dillon, Adam and Jordan Petrich; and brother Daryl (Ann) Hartley.
Memorial Contributions can be made to Boy Scouts of America Ozark Trails Council, 1616 S. Eastgate Ave., Springfield, Mo., 65809.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 17, at Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18, with an interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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