Kitchen, Clyde J. (1886-1940)

KITCHEN, ACKER

Posted By: Carl Malone (email)
Date: 9/16/2016 at 13:29:31

The Carroll Daily Times Herald
Carroll, Iowa
August 3, 1940

Clyde J. Kitchen Dies Early Today After Short Illness

Stricken 4 Weeks Ago With Diabetic Gangrene; Funeral Services Will Be Monday

Clyde J. Kitchen, 54, well-known Carroll business man, died at 3:45 this morning at the St. Anthony Hospital after a four weeks’ illness of diabetic gangrene. Mr. Kitchen had been ill at his home for two weeks before being removed in the hospital, where he underwent an operation for the amputation of his left leg Wednesday morning in an effort to arrest the spread of the poisoning.

The body is resting at the Huffman Funeral Home until the time of the services. Rites, conducted by the Rev. W. F. Clayburg, minister of the Methodist Church, will be at 10 o’clock Monday morning at the funeral home here. At 3 o’clock that afternoon there will be further services at the Roland, Peacock & Baxter Funeral Home in Atlantic, with the Rev. Mr. Clayburg and the Rev. Claude C. Cooper of Atlantic officiating.

BURIAL IN ATLANTIC

Burial will be in the Atlantic cemetery and pallbearers will be James Johnston, Floyd Dean and Don Lamb of Carroll, John Hancox of Atlantic, Eddie Nichols and Cecil Parker of Des Moines.

Mr. Kitchen, owner and proprietor of Clyde’s Lunch in Carroll, had lived here since 1927, having opened his place of business in September of that year. He had later expanded his chain of lunch rooms, operating three in Des Moines at the time of his death.

A son of Mrs. Ida Kitchen and the late James T. Kitchen, he was born at Akron, Ind., March 20, 1886. He attended grade school and also had two terms of college at Rochester, Ind., the county seat city near Akron.

In 1908 he came to Wiota, Cass County, Ia., where his parents joined him in 1910.

MARRIED IN 1912

June 12, 1912, he was married to Miss Abbie G. Acker of Atlantic. Mr. Kitchen, who had taken up farming on his arrival in Cass county in 1908, continued farming in the vicinity of Atlantic until 1927, when he came to Carroll and opened his lunch room on West Sixth Street.

Although the family house has been maintained in Carroll since then, Mr. Kitchen has spent much of the time in Des Moines overseeing his three lunch rooms there.

Surviving Mr. Kitchen are his wife, five children: Dr. Claire Kitchen, Oskaloosa; Shirley Kitchen, Glenwood; Dr. Carl Kitchen, Merle and Betty Kitchen, all of Carroll, and his mother Mrs. James T. Kitchen, of Atlantic.

Dr. and Mrs. Claire Kitchen and children, Mrs. James T. Kitchen and Mrs. Kitchen’s mother, Mrs. T. W. Acker, of Atlantic, were all here when Mr. Kitchen passed away, Mr and Mrs. Clayton Acker and Mrs. Roy Fancolley [Fancolly] of Atlantic arrived this morning.

Mr. Kitchen was an active member and regular attendant of the Methodist Church, with which he united when he was sixteen years old.

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NOTE FROM CONTRIBUTOR: Clyde Kitchen was born March 20, 1886 and died August 3, 1940.

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