Adelia "Delia" Mae Grable was the daughter of Thomas Riley Grable and his wife Mary Elizabeth Rousey. She was born near Troy, Doniphon County,Kansas, April 1, 1881. On February 22, 1898, she married Robert Johnson Ackley, at the age of seventeen. Bob, as he was called, was the son of Uriah Sanford Ackley and Margaret E. Varner. Bob was a teacher of Delia, her brother, Thomas "Elmer" Grable and the woman Elmer would later marry, Iva Anna Henderson. Delia and Bob had one son, Floyd Elmer Ackley, who was born, near Soldier, Kansas, December 1, 1898.
Delia was a tiny woman, probably not five feet tall, friendly to all, with a very pleasant, happy dispostion. When she went out, she was always well dressed. She wore shoes with little heels and this great-granddaughter still remembers her coming to visit, with her little heels clicking, as she arrived, at our home. (She moved very quickly.) The photo of her pictured on this site shows her wearing a gold bracelet on her wrist. Her husband bob purchased this gift for her, when he took his first cattle to market.
September 1931, at the age of fifty, she and her husband, Bob, age fifty-eight, took in an orphan boy named Edgar Milton Anderson. They called him "Buddy." Bob was a county commissioner, at the time. The county had a what they called "The County Poor Farm", where Buddy had been living with his mother. She passed away and Bob went out to check on her eight year old son, who was left alone. He was sitting, on a bench and Bob said to him, "Hey boy, would like to go home with me!" Thus, Buddy lived with them until he was grown and entered the military. Buddy was a nice kid who grew into a wonderful man and was very fond of his adoptive parents.
Her husband, Bob, was a successful rancher, farmer, Finney County Commissioner, Chairman of the Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange and Director of the Executve Board of Consumers' Cooperative Association, North Kansas City, Missouri.
Written by Sandra (Renick) Stark, great-granddaughter
Delia was a tiny woman, probably not five feet tall, friendly to all, with a very pleasant, happy dispostion. When she went out, she was always well dressed. She wore shoes with little heels and this great-granddaughter still remembers her coming to visit, with her little heels clicking, as she arrived, at our home. (She moved very quickly.) The photo of her pictured on this site shows her wearing a gold bracelet on her wrist. Her husband bob purchased this gift for her, when he took his first cattle to market.
September 1931, at the age of fifty, she and her husband, Bob, age fifty-eight, took in an orphan boy named Edgar Milton Anderson. They called him "Buddy." Bob was a county commissioner, at the time. The county had a what they called "The County Poor Farm", where Buddy had been living with his mother. She passed away and Bob went out to check on her eight year old son, who was left alone. He was sitting, on a bench and Bob said to him, "Hey boy, would like to go home with me!" Thus, Buddy lived with them until he was grown and entered the military. Buddy was a nice kid who grew into a wonderful man and was very fond of his adoptive parents.
Her husband, Bob, was a successful rancher, farmer, Finney County Commissioner, Chairman of the Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange and Director of the Executve Board of Consumers' Cooperative Association, North Kansas City, Missouri.
Written by Sandra (Renick) Stark, great-granddaughter
Adelia "Delia" Mae Grable was the daughter of Thomas Riley Grable and his wife Mary Elizabeth Rousey. She was born near Troy, Doniphon County,Kansas, April 1, 1881. On February 22, 1898, she married Robert Johnson Ackley, at the age of seventeen. Bob, as he was called, was the son of Uriah Sanford Ackley and Margaret E. Varner. Bob was a teacher of Delia, her brother, Thomas "Elmer" Grable and the woman Elmer would later marry, Iva Anna Henderson. Delia and Bob had one son, Floyd Elmer Ackley, who was born, near Soldier, Kansas, December 1, 1898.
Delia was a tiny woman, probably not five feet tall, friendly to all, with a very pleasant, happy dispostion. When she went out, she was always well dressed. She wore shoes with little heels and this great-granddaughter still remembers her coming to visit, with her little heels clicking, as she arrived, at our home. (She moved very quickly.) The photo of her pictured on this site shows her wearing a gold bracelet on her wrist. Her husband bob purchased this gift for her, when he took his first cattle to market.
September 1931, at the age of fifty, she and her husband, Bob, age fifty-eight, took in an orphan boy named Edgar Milton Anderson. They called him "Buddy." Bob was a county commissioner, at the time. The county had a what they called "The County Poor Farm", where Buddy had been living with his mother. She passed away and Bob went out to check on her eight year old son, who was left alone. He was sitting, on a bench and Bob said to him, "Hey boy, would like to go home with me!" Thus, Buddy lived with them until he was grown and entered the military. Buddy was a nice kid who grew into a wonderful man and was very fond of his adoptive parents.
Her husband, Bob, was a successful rancher, farmer, Finney County Commissioner, Chairman of the Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange and Director of the Executve Board of Consumers' Cooperative Association, North Kansas City, Missouri.
Written by Sandra (Renick) Stark, great-granddaughter
Delia was a tiny woman, probably not five feet tall, friendly to all, with a very pleasant, happy dispostion. When she went out, she was always well dressed. She wore shoes with little heels and this great-granddaughter still remembers her coming to visit, with her little heels clicking, as she arrived, at our home. (She moved very quickly.) The photo of her pictured on this site shows her wearing a gold bracelet on her wrist. Her husband bob purchased this gift for her, when he took his first cattle to market.
September 1931, at the age of fifty, she and her husband, Bob, age fifty-eight, took in an orphan boy named Edgar Milton Anderson. They called him "Buddy." Bob was a county commissioner, at the time. The county had a what they called "The County Poor Farm", where Buddy had been living with his mother. She passed away and Bob went out to check on her eight year old son, who was left alone. He was sitting, on a bench and Bob said to him, "Hey boy, would like to go home with me!" Thus, Buddy lived with them until he was grown and entered the military. Buddy was a nice kid who grew into a wonderful man and was very fond of his adoptive parents.
Her husband, Bob, was a successful rancher, farmer, Finney County Commissioner, Chairman of the Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange and Director of the Executve Board of Consumers' Cooperative Association, North Kansas City, Missouri.
Written by Sandra (Renick) Stark, great-granddaughter
