Ward O. McCleary (1971)

BROOKER, MCCAULLEY, MCCLEARY, MCCOY, SEVERNS, WALKER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/19/2006 at 19:47:25

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, May 19, 1971

WARD McCLEARY

Ward O. McCleary of Winterset, a life-time resident of Madison county, died Sunday, May 16, 1971, at Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines. He was 68 years of age.

Mr. McCleary was born in Madison county Oct. 24, 1902, a son of James F. and Ida May Walker McCleary. During most of his active life he engaged in farming and working as a welder, operating a shop northeast of Winterset. He retired and moved into Winterset in 1969.

He was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Winterset.

Mr. McCleary was married in 1931 to Helen McCaulley.

Surviving are a son, Harold F. McCleary of Des Moines; four grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. John Severns of Winterset, Mrs. Norwood Brooker of Winterset, and Mrs. Herman McCoy of Glenwood.

Funeral services were held this Tuesday from the Collins Funeral home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. Donald Manworren of Des Moines. Burial was made in the Jefferson cemetery, with ritual at the grave-side by the Winterset lodge, I.O.O.F.

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