1955-03-30-sc-p25-william-padley-obit

March 30, 1955 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 25:

REARDAN LAWYER TAKEN BY DEATH

Funeral services for William H. Padley, 87, W2328 Second, resident of Spokane and Reardan for 54 years, will be at 11 a, m. Friday at Smith's.

The Very Rev. Frederick Ward Kates will officiate. Interment will be in Riverside Park cemetery with the Masonic lodge assisting.

He had been hospitalized several times in the last few months and died Monday night in a Spokane hospital.

Mr. Padley, born in July, 1867 in Pinckney, Mich., was graduated with the law class of 1897 from the University of Michigan.

He taught mathematics and science in the Reardan high school from 1900 to 1904 and from 1905 to 1910. He was assistant Lincoln county superintendent of schools for three years.

Opened Office

Mr. Padley opened a law office in Reardan in 1910, carrying on a general legal practice with insurance as a sideline. He sold his practice about a year ago to Warden Hanel and his associate, A. C. McNulty. He maintained an apartment in Spokane for many years while carrying on his law practice in Reardan.

He is survived by his wife, Eugenia, at the home, They were married in 1905. He also is survived by a daughter, Willine J., who was admitted to the bar in 1932 and practiced in Spokane 15 years. She now is a nun, Sister Mary Julianna, Order of St. Joseph, in a convent in Nelson, B. C.

Mr. Padley was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges of Reardan.