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Mariage:
- Hartley, a widower with two young sons, did not remain single for long. On 17 Oct 1938, he married Isabelle Cameron Sutherland at St Boniface, Man. Notes written by her brother, Thomas Mathieson Sutherland, give a general overview of their time together (Source: electricscotland.com):
"Isabel came to Moose Jaw and stayed with us for some months before returning to Winnipeg, where shortly afterward she married Warren Hartley in a civil ceremony at the office of Mayor George McLean of St. Boniface. Warren was with a photograph company, and they later moved to Carman where Warren continued in that business, while Isabel went nursing.
With the outbreak of war, Warren became an instructor in a trade school at Logan & Sherbrook, later serving with the R.C.A.F. at various points, finally settling in B.C. after the war.
Isabel became a nurse in North Vancouver General Hospital, and one stormy evening she was driving home in the rain, and on coming around the shoulder of a mountain she met a transport truck head-on with fatal consequences. I went to Vancouver and found that the inquest had been completed that morning in North Vancouver. I attended at the funeral parlor and was present at the service, Warren having arranged for cremation. He gave me Isabel's watch to give to Jessie."
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