CLARKE, George Danforth 1853 - 1903

CLARKE, MONTGOMERY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, November 18, 1903
Page 6, Column 4

George D. CLARKE Is Dead.

George Danforth CLARKE, a business man of this city for more than a quarter of a century, died at his home on West Broadway Sunday morning. He had been in ill health for several years and a confirmed invalid since early in 1902. Mr. CLARKE was a son of the late Dr. Charles S. CLARKE. He was born in Mt. Pleasant January 18th, 1853, and accompanied the family when the father came to Fairfield in 1857 and engaged in the drug business and the practice of medicine. He received his earlier education in the city schools and was later a student in the State university at Iowa City. On his return here he engaged in business with Dr. CLARKE and afterwards succeeded him. He closed his business life here last year. Mr. CLARKE was married to Henrietta MONTGOMERY in this city May 22d, 1879. The wife and three children, Helen M., Charles W. and Ruth, survive him. George D. CLARKE was a man of generous heart and kindly impulses. He was a genial companion and a friend who could be relied upon. In the community in which nearly all his life was spent and among his business associates he had many warm friends who sympathize with him in his affliction and will mourn his death. Funeral services were held at the home on West Broadway yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot Old.P.320. Dates on his gravestone are a few days off; per his obituary he was born on January 18th and died November 15th, however they are January 16th and November 18th on the gravestone. Wife Etta died in 1936 and is buried with him.