GOLTRY, Clayton Arthur

GOLTRY, COLLINS, WATTERS, LOGAN, RHOADS, BOYCE, SLATER, ENDICOTT, BENSCOTER, ROSS, DAVENPORT

Posted By: Betty Franks (email)
Date: 10/11/2005 at 18:06:50

Glenwood Opinion Tribune
July 10, 1941

Services Monday For Soldier Lad

Body of Clayton Goltry Laid to Rest With Military Honors Monday in The Glenwood Cemetery.

A flag draped casket with a lone soldier on guard and sorrowing relatives and friends brought home to the people of this community this week the realization that this nation is close to war time days again.

Services were held in the Myers-James Funeral Home Monday afternoon for Clayton Goltry a Glenwood lad who died in an Army hospital in Denver. His body was accompanied to Glenwood by Sargeant Collins of the U.S. Army.

The service was conducted by the Rev. L.L. Watters, pastor of the Glenwood Nazarene church. Music for the service consisted of two vocal solos by Mary Evelyn Logan accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Clyde Rhoads. Six World War veterans served as pallbearers, Elmer Boyce, Harold Slater, James Endicott, Frank Logan, Wilbur Benscoter and O.M. Ross.

The body was given a military escort by a firing squad of Fort Crook and as a farwell salute was fired, the casket was lowered to its last resting place while a bugler sounded taps.

Clayton Arthur Goltry, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goltry was born in Glenwood, Iowa, January 25, 1915, and departed this life July 2, 1941 at the Fitzsimmons hospital of Denver, Colo., at the age of 26 years, 5 months and 9 days. He was serving his fourth year with the United States Army and was taken from Fort Riley to Denver to the hopital for an operation from which he never recovered.

He leaves to mourn his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goltry, two brothers, Lyman of Hamiltonfield, California, and Robert at home, four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Davenport of Oakland, Iowa; Miss Helen Goltry, of Omaha, Neb., Miss Freda Goltry and Miss Mary Ann Goltry both at home, and a host of relatives and friends. One brother preceded him in death.

His death came as a shock as they received a letter from him the day before his death, stating that he was getting along alright and the next day they received a telegram that he had passed away. His father spent a week with him at the hospital in Denver, and had just been home one week when his son died.

The sorrowing family have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community.