Clyde V. Guye

GUYE, DUFF, WITHEROW, JACKSON, GILLESPIE, HAMMOND

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/3/2006 at 22:40:52

CLYDE V. GUYE Died Last Friday

Winterset Madisonian,
April 6, 1960

Clyde V. Guye, member of one of the first pioneer families to settle Madison county, died Friday, April 1, 1960, at Des Moines. He was 66 years of age.

Mr. Guye was a descendant of the Samuel Guye family which arrived in Madison County in the spring of 1846, settling in Union township. Clyde V. Guye was born in Jefferson township March 16, 1894, a son of James M. and Margaret Duff Guye. His entire life was spent on the home farm in Jefferson Township.

He was a graduate of the Winterset high school and served in the U. S. armed forces during World War I. After the war he returned to the home farm and continued there during the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Jefferson Evangelical U. B. church, where he served as trustee and financial secretary. He was affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Winterset, and the American Legion and World War I veterans posts here. For many years he was a director of the Farmers and Merchants bank at Winterset, in which he had been a stockholder since that bank was organized in 1934.

In his early years he showed registered Hereford cattle at the Iowa State Fair. Later he became interested in American saddle bred horses, showing in both 5-gaited and fine harness classes throughout southern and central Iowa.

Only surviving near relative is his wife, Mrs. Margaret Witherow Guye. His brother, Harold, with whom he was associated in farming for many years, died in 1955. Only other relatives are three cousins, Mrs. Jessie Jackson of Winterset, and Raymond Gillespie and Mrs. Geraldine Hammond of Dexter.

Funeral services were held from the Richards Funeral home here Sunday, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Carter of the United Brethren church. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.