IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
DELLA MARIE KOPPENHAVER
(1904- )
NORTHN
PAPERS, 1958-1981
1 linear inch
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers (donor no. 641) were
donated by Debra Storm in
1999. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been retained by the donors. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Doris Malkmus, 1999.
[KoppenhaverDella.doc] |
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Biography
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.
Scope and
Content Note
The Della Marie Tenly Koppenhaver papers consist of
photocopies of typescript reminiscences and measure one linear inch. These reminiscences include an account of
farm life in the 1920s that relate typical chores women performed in the farm
family and her childhood memories of her sister Alice Tenley Hora. The accounts relate a variety of details about
her family, their Dunkard religion, and the advent of technology in the
1920s. Other details include
descriptions of women’s clothing, laundering, butchering, canning, egg
production, and family networks.
SCVF Description
Folder
1 Koppenhaver, Della Marie