GREGORY ALLEN HALEY
GREG HALEY, 37, OF CRESTON, IA, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009 AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER IN DES MOINES. SERVICES WERE HELD ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009 AT HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CRESTON. FATHER JOSEPH PINS AND FATHER LEONARD KENKEL OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN THE SAINT EDWARD’S CATHOLIC CEMETERY IN AFTON, IOWA. POWERS FUNERAL HOME IN CRESTON HANDLED THE ARRANGEMENTS.
GREGORY ALLEN HALEY WAS BORN DECEMBER 15, 1971 IN CRESTON, IOWA TO JAN EILEEN (SHUM) AND JEFFERY ALLEN HALEY. HE GRADUATED FROM CRESTON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1990. GREG ATTENDED IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND DMACC. DURING HIGH SCHOOL GREG WAS EMPLOYED AT HY-VEE IN CRESTON. DURING HIS SUMMERS IN COLLEGE, HE WORKED AS A NATURAL RESOURCE AIDE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. IN 1994 HE BECAME A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE WITH THE DNR. THROUGH THE YEARS GREG WORKED AT LAKE MANAWA STATE PARK, COUNCIL BLUFFS, RED HAW LAKE IN CHARITON, IA, AND LEDGES STATE PARK IN BOONE. MOST RECENTLY GREG WAS PARK MANAGER AT GREEN VALLEY STATE PARK IN CRESTON.
ON AUGUST 1, 1992 GREG WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO TRACI JILL BRADLEY AT THE HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CRESTON. GREG AND TRACI WERE BLESSED WITH FOUR CHILDREN, NATHAN, NICOLE, MAEGAN AND JAYSON. HE WAS A PROUD FATHER WHO ENJOYED MANY BALL GAMES, DANCE RECITALS, AND WORKING ON SCHOOL PROJECTS.
GREG WAS AN AVID OUTDOORSMAN WHO LOVED HUNTING, FISHING AND CAMPING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. GREG WAS A MEMBER OF THE THREE LAKES CUTTERS AND STRUTTERS AND SERVEDAS THE VICE PRESIDENT AND A MEMBER OF HOLY SPIRIT PARISH.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, TRACI AND FOUR CHILDREN, NATHAN LYN 13, NICOLE JO, 11, MEGAN JILL SEVEN AND JAYSON ALLEN TWO, ALL OF CRESTON, IOWA; HIS PARENTS, JEFF AND JANET HALEY OF GRINNELL, IOWA; ONE SISTER, JENNIFER (HUSBAND SCOTT) MAIERS OF IOWA CITY, IOWA; A STEPGRANDMOTHER, FLORENCE SHUM OF CRESTON, IOWA; FATHER-IN-LAW AND MOTHER-IN-LAW, JIM AND SHERRY BRADLEY OF AFTON, IOWA; THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW, TERI JO (HUSBAND DAN) STREAM OF CHARITON, IOWA; TAMI (HUSBAND NORM) REA OF LIVONIA, MICHIGAN; AND TINA (HUSBAND ED) MCCREARY; ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW, TOM (WIFE TIFFANY) BRADLEY OF WINTERSET, IOWA; SIX NIECES, ASHLEY STREAM, JESSICA MCCREARY, LILLIE REA, SOPHIE AND EMMA BRADLEY AND ALYSSA MAIERS; SEVEN NEPHEWS, PAUL (WIFE KATEY) STREAM, BOB AND BRAD STREAM, JED AND JAKE MCCREARY, BRADEN MAIERS AND JOE REA AND ONE GREAT-NIECE BELLA STREAM.
HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS GRANDPARENTS, HARRY AND RUTH HALEY AND HILDING AND EVELYN SHUM AND TWO UNCLES, JEFF MOFFITT AND RONNIE KING.
