Clarion Burns Long 1909-1979

LONG, SCHIPULL, EWING, MCDONALD, LANE, HOLLUND, STUDER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/13/2015 at 22:32:10

Heart Attack Claims Armstrong Man After Pickups in Collision
Armstrong – A 69-year-old Armstrong man is dead following a two-vehicle accident at 5:15 p.m. Thursday approximately four miles southwest of Armstrong.

An Iowa Highway Patrol spokesperson said Clarion B. [Burns] Long, Armstrong, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack after the 1978 pickup he was driving and a 1979 pickup driven by Roger Duane Tirevold, also of Armstrong, collided at the intersection of Emmet County Road N60 and a county gravel road about one mile south of Iowa Highway 9.

According to the patrol, 25-year-old Tirevold was traveling south on N60 and Long was traveling east on the gravel road. Long allegedly failed to yield at a stop sign. Tirevold reportedly swerved to the left, but both vehicles collided in the southbound lane.

The spokesperson said Long got out of his vehicle and checked on the occupants of the Tirevold pickup. Then, after climbing in and out of the ditch about three times, Long collapse of an apparent heart attack.

Roger Tirevold and a passenger in his vehicle, Mary Tirevold, were both taken to an Armstrong physician’s office for treatment of minor injuries. Roge received head injuries and Mary sustained injuries to the lower torso.

Damage to the Long vehicle was estimated at $6,000 to the front, left front and right front. The Tirevold vehicle reportedly sustained $9,000 damage to the front, right front, right middle and right rear. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, July 27, 1979)

Clarion Long
1909-1979
Armstrong – Services for Clarion B. Long, 69, rural Armstrong, were held July 30 at the Nazareth Lutheran Church, Armstrong, with the Rev. Donald Sarff officiating. Interment was in Armstrong Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Long died Thursday evening, July 26, of an apparent heart attack following an automotive accident near Armstrong.

Henry and Olson Funeral Home, Armstrong, was in charge of arrangements.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Long, he was born Oct. 19, 1909, at Corsica, S.D. He was married to Martha Schipull on Feb. 15, 1937, at Burt and the couple farmed in the Algona area until moving to a farm near Armstrong in 1949. He continued to farm in the Armstrong area until the time of his death. He was a member of the Nazareth Lutheran Church.

Mr. Long is survived by his wife, Martha, rural Armstrong; two sons, Larry Long, Armstrong, and Calvin Long, Ruthven; four daughters, Mrs. Gary (Charlotte) Ewing, Estherville, Mrs. Lenny (Carol) McDonald, Fonda, Mrs. John (Donna) Lane, Wallingford, and Mrs. Richard (Betty] Hollund, Wells, Minn.; 15 grandchildren; two brothers, Kenneth Long and Mark Long, both of Mount Vernon, S.D.; and two sisters, Mrs. Ralph Studer, Mitchell, S.D., and Mrs. John Johnson, Escondido, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, July 30, 1979)