DeGEETER, Clarence 1898-1949

DEGEETER

Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 2/1/2013 at 19:48:27

FORMER RESIDENT OF
MITCHELL COUNTY DIED IN
AURORA, ILLINIOS

Funeral services for Clarence DeGeeter, 51, of Aurora, Illinois, and formerly of Mitchell county, were held on September 19, in Aurora. He died September 16 of a heart attack.

Clarence DeGeeter was born on February 14, 1898, in Blackhawk county, Iowa, to Alphonse and Elizabeth Heinz DeGeeter. He lived there a few years and then moved to a farm near Austin, Minnesota. In 1919 they moved to a farm near New Haven, in Mitchell county, Iowa.

He went to Aurora as a young man and married an Aurora girl. They lived in Chicago a while and then returned to Aurora where he was a landscaper in late years.

Surviving are his wife and five sons: Dean, Dale, Darrell, Bob, and Albert. There are also three sisters: Mrs. Lester Schweiger of Osage, Mrs. Agnes Hartman of Chicago, and Mrs. William Hartkopp of Aurora; and three brothers: Joseph of Los Angeles, California, Scrial of Bancroft, and Bill of West Chicago.

Mitchell County Press - Sept. 29, 1949