Clyde Raymond Nolte (1954)

NOLTE, ANDREW, MILLS, PALMER, GARDINER

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Date: 8/7/2007 at 14:08:15

Earlham Library Collection
1954

CLYDE RAYMOND NOLTE

Clyde Raymond Nolte, son of Thomas C. and Philena Gardiner Nolte, was born in Osceola county, Iowa, December 16, 1889. When a small child he moved with his parents to Dexter, Iowa. Two years later they moved to the farm in the Bear Creek neighborhood that has remained the family homestead. Here he lived until about five years ago except for three years spent in Des Moines. Here he grew to manhood, attending country school at the old No. 8 schoolhouse and later the Earlham high school from which he graduated with the class of 1908.

On March 10, 1910 he and Lottie Andrew were united in marriage. To this union there was born one daughter, Pauline. With the exception of the few years in Des Moines, Clyde and Lottie lived on the home farm until the fall of 1949 when they held a farm sale and moved to Earlham.

Clyde was a birthright member of Friends. He and Lottie were charter members of the Athenian Sunday School class at Bear Creek which was organized soon after they were married.

For the last few years Clyde had been in very poor health. His death occurred at the State Hospital in Clarinda the afternoon of July 6, 1954.

He is survived by his invalid wife, Lottie; one daughter, Mrs. George Mills; two grandchildren, Patricia and Charles Mills; his mother, Mrs. Philene Nolte; one sister, Mrs. A. H. Palmer, all of Earlham, and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held at the Earlham Friends church on the afternoon of July 8, at 2 o'clock. The local pastor of the church, I. Willard Reynolds, was in charge. Burial was in the Earlham cemetery.