CLAUSEN, Max

CLAUSEN, IRISH, PIERCE, JENSEN

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/5/2013 at 23:34:09

Max Clausen, 93, Clear Lake, died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008 at the Mercy
Medical Center of North Iowa, Mason City, Iowa. A funeral service will be held
Friday, 1:30 p.m., Sept. 5, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel. Visitation will
be held Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. and one hour prior to the funeral at Ward-Van
Slyke. Interment will be held at the Clear Lake Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations should be made to either the First Church of
Christ Scientist in Clear Lake or the Nature Conservancy of Iowa.

Max Clausen was born Jan. 26, 1915 in his parents’ home in Clear Lake. Max
was the third of five children born to Leita (Irish) and Henry Wernic Clausen.

Max’s mother, Leita, was the daughter of Dr. Harry Russel Irish and Sarah
Alice Pierce Irish of Forest City, and older sister to Dr. Thomas Irish. Max’s
father, Henry Wernic Clausen, was the second of five children of Sam J. (born
Soren Jensen) and Carrie W. Clausen of Clear Lake, Iowa. (Sam J. was owner of
the grain elevator in Clear Lake, and also served as Mayor of Clear Lake.)

Max graduated from Clear Lake in the class of 1933. He graduated from
Mason City Jr. College and from Hamilton Business College. He was also a
graduate of the Roger Babson Utopia College of Business in Eureka, Kansas.

Max worked for Standard Oil Company. Max Clausen worked for the Mason
City Draft Board and then enlisted in the Army at the start of World War II,
where he served in Alaska in the Tec 3 3064th Unit until 1946. After the war,
Max moved to Clear Lake where he has lived the rest of his life. Max never
married. He looked after, traveled with, and cared for his Aunt Louise Clausen.
His primary work was in investments and land management. Max was a long-time
piano player at Witke’s and at the 1912 House.

Max was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist.

Max is survived by his brother Fred, Boulder, CO, and his cousins, Sally
Irish Baker of Mason City and Clear Lake, and Dr. Tom Irish of Tacoma, Wash., and
sister-in-law, Peg Clausen. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews
and many grand-nieces and grand-nephews.

Max was preceded in death by his brothers, Harry of Portland, Ore., Robert
(“Bob”) of Clear Lake, in 2000, sister, Caroline (“Cal”) Eugene, Ore. in 1993,
and by one nephew, Henry (“Hank”) Clausen of Ore.