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THE PASSING OF DARLENE HARL, WIFE OF IOWA STATE PROFESSOR DR. NEIL HARL
Jan. 6, 2020
Source: Adams Funeral Home
DARLENE HARL--Ames, IA--Following a series of illnesses in later life, Darlene Harl of Ames, Iowa, passed away on Jan. 2, 2020.
Darlene was born on a farm in Wayne County, Iowa, on Jan. 8, 1933, to Alta Harris and Ernest Harris. On Sept. 7, 1952, she married her high school classmate, Neil E. Harl. They had two sons, James Brent, born in 1957, now in business in Denver, Colo., and 14 years later, Rodney Scott, born in 1971, now in business in Manchester, N.H. Both sons are graduates of Harvard with Master of Science degrees.
From an early time, Darlene was a serious scholar and good friend to many. She was valedictorian in the rural group of graduating scholars in Wayne County, Iowa, in 1947. She entered high school in Seymour, Iowa, and published herself as a friend and scholar there. Her early competition in that class was Neil Harl, who later became her husband. On graduation from high school, Darlene was salutatorian in a class of 1945 and missed the top spot by one B. Her friend (and later husband) was valedictorian.
After graduation, Darlene (and several friends) sought employment in Des Moines, working for Bankers Life and later for Wallaces Farmer magazine. After her marriage in 1952, she worked for Iowa State University and the Bureau of Public Roads until her husband's graduation from Iowa State University in 1955. Her husband, an U.S. Army officer, was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas, and later at Fort Sheridan, Ill. After two years of active duty, they moved to Des Moines for a year of employment there and the following year moved to Iowa City.
Neil was enrolled at the Iowa Law School and Darlene enrolled at ISU. Her husband graduated in 1961, and they moved to Ames for him to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. He joined the ISU staff in late 1964 in the Department of Economics. Darlene completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 1981 from Iowa State University.
Darlene traveled widely with her husband, in his lecturing in the United States, and later as the head of a newly formed center, the Center for International Agricultural Finance, throughout the countries that were freed from Soviet Union control.
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