JEFFRIES, Clement Lewis Jr. 1901-1945

JEFFRIES, WILSON, RANARD, SOWERS, MICHAELSEN, HANSEN

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 10/26/2011 at 12:49:46

CLEMENT LEWIS JR. JEFFRIES – January 24, 1901—July 19, 1945

Clement L. Jeffries, Jr., 44, general foreman of John Deere Tractor Co., died of a malignant tumor at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in his home, 1428 Hawthorne Avenue. He had been ill for four months.

A resident of Waterloo since 1921, he had been employed at Deere’s for 17 years.

He was born January 24, 1901 near Osage, Iowa, a son of Clement L. and Delphine Wilson Jeffries. On February 6, 1925, he married Beryl Ranard in Waterloo. Mr. Jeffries was a member of Universalist Church.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters; Mrs. Douglas Sowers, 2062 Plymouth Avenue; and Janet Jeffries at home; a granddaughter; Sue Ellen, 2062 Plymouth Avenue; two brothers; Glen Jeffries, Route 6; and Clarence Jeffries, Lynwood, California; and two sisters; Mrs. Doris Michaelsen, 1219 Williston Avenue; and Mrs. Hansen, Huntington Par, California. His parents, one sister ad one brother preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Petersen Brothes Funeral Home, with Rev. Effie McCullum Jones, Webster City, Ia., former pastor of Universalist church here, officiating.
Burial will be in the cemetery at Osage, Iowa.

Waterloo Courier, Friday July 20, 1945