William Kenneth Price 1908 - 1994

PRICE CLAUSSEN ALLEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/1/2014 at 10:58:54

Onawa Democrat
17 February

Mr. W. Kenneth Price, age 85, of Orange City, passed away Sunday, February 6, at the Community Memorial Health Center in Hartley.

Memorial services will be held on Thursday, at 2:00 p.m. at the American Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Rev. Stanley Vander Weide officiating. Interment will be in the spring at Union Chapel Cemetery at Ira, IA.

Arrangements are being completed by the VanEtten - Oolman - VanGelder Funeral Home in Orange City.

William Kenneth Price was born July 9, 1908, at Ira, the son of William Irwin and Flora (Allen) Price. He graduated from the Baxter, IA, High School and Cornell College at Mount Vernon. He later received his Masters-Degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and pursued further study at Columbia University in New York City.

Mr. Price's 46 year career in education began in 1930 at Oto, IA, where he was a high school teacher, principal, and superintendent.

On June 15, 1940, he married Claudia Celeste Claussen at Sioux City. They lived at Climbing Hill, where he was superintendent of schools. They then moved to Onawa, where he became Monona County Superintendent. Since 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Price have made their home in Orange City, where he was Sioux County Superintendent of Schools. He later was also appointed superintendent of Lyon County. In 1973, he semi-retired and in 1976, he full retired.

Mr. Price was active in the many school consolidations that took place in Sioux County, and he was involved in the founding of the Northwest Iowa Technical College at Sheldon. He travelled extensively, including going to Russia in 1968 with an educational group. During college and in retirement, he and his wife assisted at YMCA summer camps.

He was a member of the American Reformed Church, where he had served on the consistory as an elder. He had served as president of the Orange City Tulip Festival Steering Committee and was a member of the Orange City Lions Club and the Ramblers. He had also served as president of the Iowa State Education Association.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Penny and Dr. Paul Fee, of Sioux City; and Becky and Larry Williams, of Great Falls, MT; two sons, Allen, of Sioux Falls, SD; and David, of Yellowstone National Park, WY; four step-grandchildren, two step-great-grandchildren; and a brother, Donald, of Des Moines, IA.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters.