William W. Clements (1924)

CLAMPITT, CLEMENTS, DUFF, HADLEY, HAYS, MCBRIDE, MOORE, MORELAND, PRICE

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Date: 12/4/2010 at 16:29:44

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 2, 1924
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William W. Clements died at his father’s home near Earlham, Saturday, after a lingering illness extending over ten months. He leaves his wife and three daughters to mourn his early departure; also his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Clements, and seven sisters.

Funeral services, conducted by Rev. W. Z. Allen, of the Winterset United Presbyterian church, were held Monday at the Worthington M.E. church. An obituary notice will be found elsewhere in this issue.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 2, 1924
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William Warder Clements, son of Chalmers O. and Ora C. Clements, was born near Earlham, April 2, 1882. He was one of a family of ten children. A sister, Bertha, who died in infancy; one brother, Arthur Thornton, who passed away in the spring of 1908 at the age of 21 years; and seven sisters who survive him: Mrs. Waldo Hadley, Mrs. Chas. W. McBride, Mrs. Guy Hays, Mrs. Roy Moreland, Mrs. Wm. Price and Mrs. Guy Moore, all of Earlham, and Mrs. Russell Duff of Des Moines.

After finishing the country school, he completed the commercial course at the Earlham academy in 1903. His life has been given to the pursuit of farming. With the exception of four or five years spent near Pleasantville, Iowa and in Kansas, he has lived in the vicinity of his birth.

On April 8, 1906, he was united in marriage with Ora Clampitt of Monteith. To this union were born three daughters: Louise, Marie and Cecile.

On March 18, 1906 he united with the Church of Christ at Monteith. During the Pratt evangelistic campaign at Early Chapel in 1923, he renewed his covenant with his Master and with his wife united with the United Presbyterian church at Pitzer. He has been a member of the Masonic order for about 20 years, being at the time of his death a member of Madison lodge of Earlham. His faith in the church was strong and he often spoke in praiseworthy terms of its work in his community. He was of a reticent retiring nature, but during his days of sickness the visits of his friends and the tokens of esteem sent to him filled his days with kindly thoughts and happy reminiscences. A patient invalid for 10 months, he uncomplainingly accepted his fate, saying “I do not understand why I am thus stricken, but I know God never makes a mistake.”

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. Z. Allen at the Worthington M.E. church on Monday afternoon.

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