Corrow, Clem C. (1860-1944)

CORROW, NAIL, WILCHER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/13/2017 at 15:07:03

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Thursday, August 24, 1944

[obituary has a typo in last name - Carrow - and is very hard to read]

Funeral services are pending for Clem C. Corrow, former resident of the Stanhope community who died early Thursday morning at the hospital in this city where he had been a patient the past ?. Death is due to complications following the fracture of a hip.

He had been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. M.G. Nail, ? of Fort Dodge, since May of this year.

Clem C. Corrow, son of ? was born 1860 at Momence, Illinois. He received his education there and grew to young manhood in that community.

Dec. 15, 1885 he was married to Maud E. Wilcher at Momence and they made their home in that city until 1892 when they moved to Iowa. They resided on a farm northeast of Stanhope, with the exception of two years in Minnesota.

Besides his parents, Mr. Corrow was preceded in death by his wife who died in 1930 and a son who died March ?. Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Nail, five grandsons, all in the U.S. armed forces, four granddaughters, five great grandchildren and the daughter-in-law, Mrs. Della Corrow of Marshall, Minn.

He was baptized in the Methodist faith and was a member of the Methodist church in Stanhope.

[burial at Lawn Hill Cemetery, rural Stanhope, Hamilton Co., Iowa]