Mae O’Dell (Stroup) Greeley

May 29, 1916 – March 27, 2010

Mae Greeley of Manteca, California, passed away at the age of 93 on Saturday, March 27. She was in Palm Haven Care Center, Manteca, CA since 2004.

Born on May 29, 1916, on a race horse/cattle ranch just 8 miles out of Blackwell, Oklahoma, she was the daughter of Harry Cleveland Stroup and Nina Lillian Stauffer. Mae moved west to Beverly Hills, California after graduating from Perry high school.

On October 7, 1940, she and Donald Greeley were married in Santa Alma, California. They were happily married for almost 60 years, before Donald past away in 2000. They moved to Manteca in 1945 when their third child was just 2 years old.

Mae had a great love for her family, real estate clients, and friends. She purchased an existing real estate company and building with 5 salesmen in 1957 creating Greeley Realty. Every salesman quit the first day! Because “a woman has no place in the real estate business”. Her office soon became successful with both men and women sales staff with decades of satisfied clients.

Mrs. Greeley was a charter member of Manteca board of Realtors and Manteca Multiple listing service. She was part of the committee to bring the Manteca Hospital to Manteca now known as Doctors Hospital. Mae was on a Stockton Jr. College advisory board (now known as Delta College). One of the board’s projects was purchasing the future college site near the NW corner of Lathrop Rd & Hwy 99.

She enjoyed her years in Soroptimists and as the 15th president of Soroptimist International in Manteca (1967-68).

Upon retirement Mae & Don enjoyed traveling to places such as China and Panama. They took a motor home club tour of Mexico. They always loved the great outdoors. They liked fishing and boating in Yellowstone, Alaska, the San Juan Islands, our local Delta, and the High Sierras.

She will be remembered for her strawberry rhubarb pie, oatmeal cookies, warm persimmon pudding, and fresh fish dinners. She loved her precious kitty Indy that she shared with her grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her sister, two brothers, her husband, and son Norman Greeley.

Mae is survived by: her children, Carolyn Wulf and David Greeley; 4 grandchildren, Dean & Constance Wulf of Alberta, Canada, and Chet & Lynn Greeley of Manteca.

Memorial services will be held on Friday at 2 p.m. April 2, at Park View Cemetery Chapel, 3661 French Camp Road, just north of Manteca, California. In lieu of flowers you may donate to the Soroptimist Memorial Fund P.O. Box 218 Manteca, CA. 95336.