Edgar Milton McCleary (1942)

KLEIN, MCCLEARY, MINNERLY, WRIGHT

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 1/6/2012 at 11:40:02

Newspaper Unknown
June 1942

Last Call Comments to Carpenter, 75

Edgar Milton McCleary, 75, carpenter, and resident of Twin Falls since 1918, died at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Twin Falls county general hospital. He was born August 12, 1866, at Van Meter, Iowa.

He worked on the Swift and company building and other major projects in the community, and following his trade of carpentry.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 at the White mortuary funeral chapel.

Surviving are his wife, Lulu Jane Wright McCleary, whom he married December 13, 1893 in Booneville, Iowa, and the following children, Mrs. Genevieve W. Klein, Tacoma, Wash., B. M. McCleary, Los Angeles, Calif., L. F McCleary, Provo, S. D., and Mrs. Isabelle M. Minnerly, Corvallis, Ore.

Proceeding him in death were two sons, Harry D., a World war veteran, and Max McCleary.

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Transcriber's note: Mr. McCleary and his family formerly lived in Madison County and some of his children were born there.