Wing, Clifford Burdette (1907-1969)

WING, MONSON, LIND, ENGELBY, BROWER, HADAWAY, WILSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/7/2017 at 15:03:11

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, December 9, 1969

Clifford B. Wing, 62, a longtime and widely known Stanhope resident and businessman, died Monday evening at the Hamilton County hospital following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran church in Stanhope with the Rev. Enoch Hall officiating and with burial in the Lawn Hill cemetery near Stanhope.

The body will lie in state at the Foster Funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Thursday when it will be taken to the church.

Clifford Burdette Wing, son of Theodore and Christina Monson Wing, was born Feb. 20, 1907, on a farm near Blairsburg. When he was a year old, he moved with his family to Stanhope and was reared and educated in that community.

He was united in marriage July 31, 1928, to Erma Lind, and the couple had always resided in Stanhope where Mr. Wing, for the past 47 years, had engaged in the barbering trade.

He is survived by his wife; one daughter and two sons, Mrs. Duane (Norma) Engelby and Dennis Wing, both of Stanhope, and Lyle Wing of Story City; eight grandchildren; four brothers and two sisters, Jess Wing and Clarence Wing, both of Stanhope, Leonard Wing of Lynd, Minn., Ernest Wing and Mrs. Don (Genevieve) Brower, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Mrs. Don (Alice) Hadaway of Stanhope and a number of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, who died in infancy; by another sister, Mrs. Marie Wilson, and one granddaughter.

Mr. Wing was baptized and confirmed in the Zion Lutheran church north of Stanhope. He was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran church in Stanhope, and the Lions club. He served as town clerk of Stanhope for 33 years. For 33 years he served as a distributor of the Sunday Des Moines Register.