Vera Elizabeth Galley
Vera Galley was born in a small Southeastern community in Illinois in the city of Effingham. She had a sister named Dorothy.
While young her family moved to Denver, Colorado where she later met and married Lionel Priestly Yetter a widower with two children. Lionel P. worked for the Flacks Candy Company as a route salesman . He was murdered by an unknown assailant on Curtis Street the night of the Joe Lewis and Max Schmeling heavyweight title match on June 19, 1936. Vera was left with five children, Glesner and Dale, who were her stepchildren, and Roger Melvyn age 5, JoAnne age 3 and Lionel G. Yetter aged 6 months. At the time of her husbands death, Vera was 24 years old and without an education. Glesner's uncle Archie and his wife cared for Glesner while Dale's paternal grandmother took him and raised him. Vera tried her best to take care of the three remaining children but soon placed Rodger in Clayton College Home for Boys. She then boarded JoAnne and Lionel to different families where they spent 24 hours a day. In the meantime she married more than once in hopes she could find a man with enough compassion to rejoin all the children. When Vera learned that JoAnne and Lionel were being fed oatmeal three times a day, oftentimes leftover and cold, she placed them in the Denver Orphans home. After failed marriages, she finally met a good man who agreed to eventually take the three children. After two years at the DOA JoAnne was taken out to rejoin her mother. Lionel spent three years in the Denvers Orphans Home and at aged 6, was transferred to Clayton College Home for Boys where he remained until he became a teenager. Rodger had already joined the army and Lionel later joined his sister at the Galley home. Vera was a strong and courages woman who later in life accepted Jesus as her savior along with Joseph. They lived faithfully and were active in their church for the rest of their days.
While young her family moved to Denver, Colorado where she later met and married Lionel Priestly Yetter a widower with two children. Lionel P. worked for the Flacks Candy Company as a route salesman . He was murdered by an unknown assailant on Curtis Street the night of the Joe Lewis and Max Schmeling heavyweight title match on June 19, 1936. Vera was left with five children, Glesner and Dale, who were her stepchildren, and Roger Melvyn age 5, JoAnne age 3 and Lionel G. Yetter aged 6 months. At the time of her husbands death, Vera was 24 years old and without an education. Glesner's uncle Archie and his wife cared for Glesner while Dale's paternal grandmother took him and raised him. Vera tried her best to take care of the three remaining children but soon placed Rodger in Clayton College Home for Boys. She then boarded JoAnne and Lionel to different families where they spent 24 hours a day. In the meantime she married more than once in hopes she could find a man with enough compassion to rejoin all the children. When Vera learned that JoAnne and Lionel were being fed oatmeal three times a day, oftentimes leftover and cold, she placed them in the Denver Orphans home. After failed marriages, she finally met a good man who agreed to eventually take the three children. After two years at the DOA JoAnne was taken out to rejoin her mother. Lionel spent three years in the Denvers Orphans Home and at aged 6, was transferred to Clayton College Home for Boys where he remained until he became a teenager. Rodger had already joined the army and Lionel later joined his sister at the Galley home. Vera was a strong and courages woman who later in life accepted Jesus as her savior along with Joseph. They lived faithfully and were active in their church for the rest of their days.
