Roseberry, Clarence D. 1887-1944

ROSEBERRY, HAAS

Posted By: Plymouth CC
Date: 2/14/2004 at 11:51:59

C.D. Roseberry, LeMars Attorney Died November 24, 1944
Did Not Rally from Paralytic Stroke Two Days Previous

Clarence D. Roseberry, prominent LeMars attorney and widely known citizen of northwest Iowa, died at 8 o'clock Friday morning, November 24, following a paralytic stroke Wednesday morning from which he never regained consciousness. Mr. Roseberry had been in poor health for months, but went to his office almost every day until he was stricken.

Clarence DePue Roseberry was born January 23, 1887, at Remsen, the son of Frank M. and Della May Roseberry. Six years after Clarence was born, the family moved to LeMars where Clarence graduated from high school in 1903, attended Western Union college one year and then entered Cornell college, Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he received his B.A. degree in 1908. He then took a 2 year law course at the University of Iowa law school. He was a member of the baseball team at all three colleges he attended and played football at Western Union and Cornell.

On October 29, 1919, he married Miss Helen Haas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Haas of LeMars, who with one son, Lieut. Robert Roseberry, now on duty with the army air corps in the Pacific, and one daughter, Helen Joan, at home, survive him.

Besides the immediate family and relative living in LeMars Mr. Roseberry is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Frank Stearns of Des Moines and Mrs. Fred Gezel of Sterling, Illinois.

Mr. Roseberry was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1911, having previously been a clerk in his father's office, and from 1911 to 1935, when his father died, they were associated in the practice of law. In the latter year C.W. Pitts became associated with Mr. Roseberry and the firm has been known as Roseberry & Pitts.

From 1913 to 1918 Mr. Roseberry was county attorney of Plymouth county, resigning to enlist in the 314th cavalry in May 1918, and serving until November of that year when he was discharged after the armistice was signed. He again served as county attorney in 1921-22.

Mr. Roseberry was an active member of many business and civic orgainzations. He was a trustee of Western Union college, a director of the LeMars Mutual Insurance Company, a director and charter member of the LeMars Savings and Loan Association and attorney for many local business concerns. He was also active in the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, district, state and national associations, LeMars Country Club, Isaak Walton Leagure, several fraternal orders and the Presbyterian church. He not only was a member of these organizations but was an active worker in most of them. He was given his doctor's degree by Western Union three years ago.

A republican in politics he had once or twice represented this district in republican national conventions. He took great interest in athletic sports and did much to promote them in our local schools.

Probably no other man in LeMars was as active a participant in the business, educational, religious and social life of this community as was Clarence Roseberry and his death in his 57th year is a distinct loss to the community.

Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian church at 2 pm Monday, November 27, with Rev. Golden Thompson, actiing pastor of the church, officiating and the burial was in the city cemetery.

Submitted by Nancy Richings