Date Span: | 1958-1981 |
Creator: | Koppenhaver, Della Marie (1904-) |
Extent: | 1.00 . |
Collection Number: | IWA0436 |
Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
Summary: | Two reminiscences of Alice Tenley Hora, an Iowa farm woman, detailing farm life in the 1920s. |
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has been retained by the donors.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 641) were donated by Debra Storm in 1999.
Preferred Citation: Della Marie Koppenhaver papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
Phone: | 319-335-5068 |
Curator: | Kären Mason |
Email: | lib-women@uiowa.edu |
Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa |
The Tenley family moved to Iowa from Mt. Carroll, in northwestern Illinois. Della Marie Tenley was born on November 12, 1904, the youngest of nine children. She grew up on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa, and married neighboring farmer Everette Koppenhaver in 1923. They moved to a farm near Martelle, Iowa and raised four children. They retired from farming in 1968 and moved to Martelle. She moved into a care center in Anamosa in the late 1980s.
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Series 1: Unpublished writings
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