Clyde Bean (1927)

BEAN, EAMES, RICHARDSON, RUSSELL

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:25

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 29, 1927
Page 4, Column 2

Obituary - Clyde Bean

Tuesday evening, November 29, 1927, Clyde Bean died in the sixty-sixth year of his life. For months Mr. Bean had been limited in activities by the affliction which resulted in his death.

Clyde Bean was born in Ollie, Iowa, May 18, 1862, a son of Alphonse F. and Lucretia A. Bean. When reaching the age of twenty-one he came to Bethel, Maine where he resided for seven years and during which time he was employed by his uncle, Gilmer P. Bean. He then returned to Winterset, Iowa, where he and his brother, Elihu, formed a partnership and engaged in the grocery business.

In April, 1893, Clyde Bean and Mary Russell Eames, daughter of William P. Eames of Bethel, Maine were married. They went to Winterset, Iowa where for 10 years from 1893 to 1903, there they made their home. During this time Mr. Bean was engaged in the grocery business. In 1903 because of ill health, he with his family moved to the same farm near Ollie, Iowa, where he spent his early childhood.

In 1916, after an illness of more than a year, his wife died. Mr. Bean remained on the farm at Ollie until 1925, when he returned to New England to spend the remaining years of his life.

Mr. Bean identified himself with the Odd Fellows in early manhood, having been an Odd Fellow for more than 49 years at the time of his decease. He was a member of the Linby Lodge in Linby, Iowa and was honored by the fraternity for several years as district deputy. Members of Glenn lodge, I. O. O. F. of Gorham acted as pallbearers.

Mr. Bean was again married on August 18, 1919 to Gertrude Richardson Russell of Gorham, who survives him. Mr. Bean is also mourned by a daughter, Abigail E., teacher of the school in Shelburne, and a son, Malcolm R., of Belmont, Mass., who is engaged in the practice of law at Boston, Massachusetts. Three brothers survive, John M., of Langford, North Dakota; Elihu, of Shoshone, Wyoming and Malcolm, of Fresno, California.

He acknowledged his faith by membership in the Church of the Disciples of Christ, Packwood, Iowa.

Burial services were conducted at his late home in Gorham by Rev. A. H. Graham, pastor of the Gorham Methodist church. The interment being at North Bethel, Maine.

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