Frank H. Clearwater (1948)

CLEARWATER, EARP, BURGESS, FORRET, BEASLEY, BROOKINS, SPRECHER, SNARR, MOYER

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Date: 12/30/2007 at 13:17:41

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
February 18, 1948; p. 7

FRANK CLEARWATER DIES AT VAN METER

Retired Farmer Had Spent His Early Life in Madison County

Van Meter-(Special)-Frank H. Clearwater, well-known retired farmer of Madison and Dallas counties, died Sunday, Feb. 15 at his home in Van Meter. He was 81 years of age, but had been in good health until a few weeks ago.

Mr. Clearwater was born near Winterset April 13, 1866, the son of David and Louisa Clearwater. His early life was spent in Madison county and most of his later life in Dallas county. He had lived in Van Meter since 1923.

He was married Feb. 18, 1892, to Anna M. Earp. They were the parents of six children, one son dying in infancy. Mrs. Clearwater died in 1946.

He was a member of the Van Meter United Brethren church in which he was active until failing health interfered.

Mr. Clearwater is survived by a son, George Clearwater of Des Moines; four daughters, Mrs. Fern Burgess of Van Meter, Mrs. Mabel Forret of Adel, Mrs. Corbel Beasley of Marshalltown and Mrs. Thelma Brookins of Oakland, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; five great grandchildren; three brothers, John and Cloyd Clearwater of Portland, Ore., and Bert Clearwater of British Columbia, Canada; and three sisters, Mrs. Verna Sprecher of Sea View, Wash., and Mrs. Myrtle Snarr and Mrs. Mayme Moyer, both of Portland, Ore.

Funeral services were to be held at 2 p.m. this Wednesday from the Van Meter United Brethren church and burial was to be made in the Van Meter cemetery.