George Henry Clendenen

CLENDENEN, MCMONIGAL

Posted By: Susan Rueber Bathke (email)
Date: 5/20/2008 at 12:18:33

George Henry Clendenen, son of James and Joanna Clendenen, was born June 13, 1874 in Delaware County near Colesburg, and died following a heart attack Aug. 27 at 9:40 p.m. at the St. Joseph hospital in Dubuque.
On Oct. 7, 1896 he was united in marriage to Miss Isabel McMonigal of Colesburg. The first two years of their marriage life was spent on a farm near Greely. From here they moved to a farm near Oelwein where they lived 12 years. The remaining 36 years of their life were spent on the home farm south of Fayette.
He had been in failing health the past 11 months. Last Oct. 7 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. A week later he suffered a severe heart attack. He had been cared for in the home unitl March 23 when his condition became such that hospital care was necessary. At that time he was taken to the hospital in Dubuque.
During the years that he has spent in the Fayette community he was a member of the Smithfield No. 5 school board, the board of trustees and for eighteen years he was a member of the Fayette Mutual Creamery board.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a son who died in infancy, three brothers, a half-sister and an infant grandson.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Isabel Clendenen, a daughter, Mrs. Walter Eaton of Berwick, Ill., a son, Harold on the home farm at Fayette, 10 grandchildren, Vance, Shirley, Deloris, Kenneth, Marion and Margaret, and Janeth Kay Eaton of Berwick, Ardis of Louisville, KY., Evelyn of Galesburg, Ill., and Betty Jean Clendenen of Fayette; two great-grandchildren, Mary Ann and Rose Marie Eaton of Berwick, Ill., one sister, Mrs. Albert Tutton of Manchester; two brothers, John of Oelwein and Wilbert of Rhame, N.D., and a number of neices and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted at the Belles Funeral home Saturday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. D. E. Freeman, a friend of the family, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Montezuma, Iowa. Burial was in Grandview cemetery at Fayette.

Source: Oelwein Daily Register, August 28, 1947