YEAGER, Elton L. "Jack"

YEAGER, FORD, PICKARD, WILSON, GADDIS, MARSH, OCONNER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/30/2013 at 01:06:37

E. L. YEAGER, MANAGER OF INTERSTATE POWER CO. DIES

CLEAR LAKE – Elton L. (Jack) Yeager, manager of the Interstate Power Company’s Clear Lake office, died early Sunday at a Mason City hospital where he had been a patient one week after having a heart attack.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church with Dr. John DeLong officiating. Burial will be in Clear Lake Cemetery. The Ward Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Elton LaVerne Yeager was born April 7, 1903, the son of Albert L. and Connie (Ford) Yeager at Indianapolis. He was graduated from Indianapolis Technical High School in 1922. April 28, 1923, he was married to Golden E. Pickard at Anderson, Ind.

They lived in Philadelphia and Allentown, Pa.; Galesberg, Ill., and Davenport while he was employed by two furnace companies. From 1929 until 1939 he was a salesman for the General Electric Co., living in Cedar Rapids and Clinton.

He started with the Peoples’ Gas and Electric Co., now Interstate power Co., at Clear Lake in 1939, being named manager in February 1956.

Survivors include his wife, Golden; one son, Allen E., Clear Lake; one daughter, Mrs. Henry (Marcella) Wilson, Falls Church, Va.; three brothers, Ivan, Ninevah, Ind.; Harlan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Robert, with the U.S. Navy, San Leandro, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. B. (Vivian), Gaddis, and Mrs. Norman (Marjory) Marsh, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Tim (Eloise) O’Conner, Los Angeles, and seven grandchildren.

Mr. Yeager was president elect of the Rotary Club, past president of the official board and a trustee of the Methodist Church, past director of the Chamber of Commerce; member of Verity Lodge 250, Masonic Order; served three years as president and three years as a member of the school board, was chairman of the building committee for the Band Shell and was one of the key men in establishing tennis courts and the baseball diamond at Lions Field.

In 1954 he was named Clear Lake’s Man of the Year for his outstanding community activities. He was active in Red Cross, serving as fund drive chairman two years; was a member of the Park Board, member of the Association for Preservation of Clear Lake and was a past chairman of the Clear Lake Recreation Commission.

NOTE – Mr. Yeager died in May, 1964.