Raymond Harley Chickering (1945)

CHICKERING, GRISWOLD, GLASSCOCK, COMP, GOLTRY

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/15/2006 at 08:26:28

Winterset Madisonian - Wed., May 16, 1945

Raymond Harley Chickering, a well known young farmer of this community, died last Thursday at the Lutheran hospital in Des Moines following a brief illness which was diagnosed as leukemia, a rare and fatal blood disease. He was 38 years of age.

Mr. Chickering was a native of Montgomery county, where he was born Aug. 15, 1906, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Chickering. His early life was spent in Montgomery county, and he came to this community with his family in 1931. The past four years he had lived near Macksburg.

On March 8, 1935, he was married to Miss Cleatice G. Griswold. They were the parents of three children, Carroll Richard, Evelyn Marie, and LaVanna Jean.

In youth he had been a member of the Methodist church at Villisca, but after coming to this community he had joined the Seventh Day Adventist church here.

In addition to his wife and three small children, he is survived by his father, Herbert Chickering of Winterset; three brothers, Wayne Chickering of Winterset, Lieut. Ross Chickering of the Army Air forces in France, and James of Villisca; and four sisters, Mrs. Darlene Glasscock of Goshen, Ind., Rose Marie Chickering of Miami, Fla., Mrs. Janice Comp of Winterset, and Betty Jean Chickering of Des Moines; and his grandfather, E. T. Goltry of Bedford.

Funeral services were held Sunday from the Winterset Methodist church, in charge of Elder L. E. Holley of Des Moines, assisted by the Rev. W. A. Samp of Winterset. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.