Clay, Lawrence A. 1898-1951

CLAY, SHROYER

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Date: 3/10/2014 at 16:14:17

Lawrence A. Clay, age fifty-two, prominent Franklin county farmer and businessman, passed away at the Lutheran hospital in Hampton, Monday evening, June 4th, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been in ill health for the past year, caused by a stroke. He was taken to the hospital a few days ago at the time of his final illness.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon, Thursday, at 2:00 o'clock at the Methodist church, in Hampton. Rev. Ralph E. Baker, pastor of the church will be in charge of the final rites and burial will be made in the Hampton cemetery.

Lawrence Arthur Clay was born October 31, 1898, on a farm near Gilman, Iowa, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Clay. He was a graduate of the Gilman high school and the Marshalltown Business College. He also attended Grinnell College and Iowa State College at Ames.

On December 22, 1922, he was married to Miss Doris Shroyer, in Hampton, and they made their home on a farm south of Hampton. They became acquainted when she was a teacher in the public schools at Gilman. To this union three children were born.

Mr. Clay served as one of the Franklin county AAA committeemen for five years and rendered the farmers of the county most efficient and valuable service, and was held in high regard by his associates on the committee, and by the hundreds of persons whom he served in helping to solve their farm program problems. Lawrence Clay had many friends thruout Franklin county who are saddened to know of his death.

He was a member of the board of directors and a trustee of the Methodist church in Hampton. He served on the state agricultural advisory committee for the OPA during World War II and was very active in farm bureau work. He served with the United States Army during World War I, and was formerly a popular member of the Hampton Commercial Club, the Forum Club and the Hampton Rotary Club, and a director of the Franklin County Fair Association.

Mr. Clay was a member of the Methodist church in Hampton, and was affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Gilman, and a member of the George A. Aldinger Post of the American Legion of Hampton and a past commander.

He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Miss Mary Janet Clay of Hampton, and two sons, Cpl. Thomas M. Clay, of Camp Gordon, Georgia, and Donald L. Clay of Lead, South Dakota. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister.

~The Hampton Chronicle, June 7, 1951