Clarence J. Ferguson (1931)
FERGUSON, HINDMAN
Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 7/16/2006 at 10:38:27
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 16, 1931Death of Clarence Ferguson
Clarence Ferguson, who has been in poor health for several years, died at the National Methodist Sanitarium in Colorado Springs on Saturday, April 11. He was 28 years of age. Mrs. Ferguson had gone to Colorado to be with him, and she brought back the body to Winterset.
The Rev. W. B. Tarr of the Oak Grove church conducted the funeral services at Tidrick’s funeral home Wednesday afternoon, April 15, and burial was in the Winterset cemetery.
Mr. Ferguson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wells Ferguson and was born near Audubon July 11, 1902. He was graduated from the Wiota high school in 1921. The family then came to the Garrett farm in Adair county, just over the Madison county line, and two years later moved to the Maple Grove neighborhood.
He was married to Lela Hindman, December 2, 1924, and they were the parents of one son, Gleason Star, now 3-1/2 years old. Mr. Ferguson worked in a garage in Winterset and later the family removed to Cherokee, where at the end of a year tuberculosis developed, which resulted in his death. More details of his life may be found in the mortuary column on page 5.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 16, 1931
Page 6, Column 4CLARENCE FERGUSON DIES IN COLORADO
Clarence J. Ferguson, 28, died Saturday in a sanitarium at Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he had been a patient some time. Death was due to tuberculosis.
Services were held in Winterset Wednesday afternoon at the Tidrick funeral home conducted by the Rev. W. B. Tarr, pastor of the Oak Grove Evangelical church; burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.
Mr. Ferguson was the son of Wells and Jacobina Ferguson and was born near Audubon July 11, 1912. The family moved to Exira and afterward to a farm near Atlantic. He was graduated from the Wiota high school in 1920, going to Adair county soon after. The family then moved to the Maple Grove neighborhood in Madison county.
He was employed for a time in the drafting Department of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. at Des Moines. Later he attended an auto school in Kansas City, returning here where he was employed, before moving to Cherokee where his health failed.
He became a member of the Maple Grove church in 1922, later transferring his membership to the Oak Grove church.
His marriage to Lela Hindman took place December 4, 1924, who with their son, Gleason Star, three and a half years old, survives, as to his parents, now living at Fulton, Missouri; his brothers, James of Grand Junction, Colorado; George of Chicago; Ferdinand of New York City; and Frank at Fulton where a sister, Ada, also makes her home.
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