Mrs. Katherine (Radabaugh) Clemens 1866-1938

CLEMENS, RADABAUGH, DAVIS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/25/2016 at 16:16:43

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, May 13, 1938

Earlville, Ia., - Special: Mrs. Katherine Clemens, 72, died at her home here at 5:30 o’clock Friday morning after a several week’s illness.
As Katherine Radabaugh, one of a family of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Radabaugh, she was born in Minnesota on April 1, 1866. Fifty-six years ago she was married to Perry Clemens, who died in October 1921.

Two sons also preceded her in death, Fred in 1934, and Harry in infancy.

With the exception of a short residence in Delhi and Edgewood, all of her married life was spent in Earlville.

She leaves three children: Albert, of Greeley; Charles of Dubuque; and Mrs. L. G. Davis, at Scales Mound, Ill.; 15 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Tracey and Charles Radabaugh, both of Colesburg.

Funeral services will be held at the M. E. Church at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon with the Rev. H. H. Palmer, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.