McALISTER, Claude Isaac

MCALISTER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 8/31/2015 at 14:42:44

Claude Isaac McAlister
November 05, 1901 ~ July 10, 2003

The Chieftain
Bonner Springs, Kansas

Two City Employees Retire

Two Bonner Springs city employees, each with a term of service extending beyond of nearly to 15 years, took their retirement the first of the year.

The two are Walt Cranmer, 315 North Nettleton,and Claude McAlister, 122 Arthur Avenue.

Cranmer, who began working for the city in March, 1954, has spent the major portion of those 16 years in the water department. He said he has no definite plans for his retirement years but his family includes three daughters, all of whom live within a radius of 20 miles of Bonner Springs.

"I'll just stay right here, at least for a month of two," Cranmer said.

McAlister, who would have completed 15 years a a city employe (sic) on Feb. 17 had he delayed retirement to that date, has had a variety of jobs, including work as a member of the water department crew.

But McAlister's work also was varied enough that it brought him in contact with many Bonner Springs residents. In recent years he has had the assignment of directing traffic during school hours near the McDanield School at Oak and Nettleton and when he wasn't directing traffic he was checking cars for overtime parking or doing custodial work at the city hall.

McAlister, one of twin sons born, Nov., 5, 1901, came from Alva, Okla., to Bonner Springs in August , 1955, and the following February went to work for the city. His twin brother [Clyde] met accidental death in 1947 when he was struck by a falling tree in California.

McAlister's wife, Florence, became a teacher in the Edwardsville School in the fall of 1955, taught in the Bonner Springs schools the following year and continued until she retired two years ago. Retirement for her was short in duration. For the past two years she has been teaching in thee Basehor schools but she plans to retire and make it stick at the end of the current school year. In bowing out of the profession, she has completed 32 years of teaching.

McAlister labeled Nov. 5 as an important date in the McAlister family. In addition to Nov. 5 being the birth date of himself and his twin brother, Nov. 5 also is the birth date of a sister.

For McAlister retirement at 69 isn't going to be the end of the line. He hopes to learn typing as a means of helping him in another chosen field: for several years he has been a lay preacher in the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. With retirement, he plans to devote more time to work in the church.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2015

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