Glenna Brooke Wiley
(March 5, 2011)

Glenna Brooke Wiley, of Des Moines, IA, formerly of Huntington, West Virginia, died on Saturday, March 5, 2011. Funeral services will be conducted 11:00 am Saturday, March 19, 2011 at Chapman’s Mortuary with Rev. William Haynes, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. Glenna was the youngest of five children of Eugene and Georgia Wellman of Fort Gay, WV. After graduating from high school, she attended St. Mary’s Nursing School in Huntington.

In 1955, she married Robert H. Wiley and they settled in Petersburg, MI, where they lived and raised their family until 1979, at which time Glenna returned to Huntington where she remained until 2007.

Practicing as an RN, Glenna enjoyed a long career, specializing to some degree, in psychiatric nursing. Glenna worked at the Regional State Hospital in Huntington, was the Nursing Director for the Veteran’s Home in Huntington and returned to psychiatric nursing at HCA River Park Psychiatric Hospital in Huntington.

A member of Beverly Hills United Methodist Church, a past matron and lifetime member of the Order of Eastern Star, and a volunteer for Contact, a crisis hotline, Glenna felt called to the service of those in need.

Glenna is survived by a brother, Eugene Wellman of Memphis, TN; three daughters: Rebecca Curley of Petersburg, MI; Elizabeth Boyd of Highland Park, IL; Melissa Flowers of Des Moines, IA and six grandchildren: Tyler and Jessie Boyd; Bobbi and Courtney Curley and; Sarah and Ben Flowers.
Friends may call from 10:00 am to service time Saturday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Glenna, to Barboursville Veteran’s Home in Barboursville, WV.