Clara Lucille (Collup) Sylvester (1904-1979)

SYLVESTER, COLLUP, CLEAR, VAN SICKLE, BOMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/14/2014 at 21:42:16

From Nevada Evening Journal July 1979

Clara L. Sylvester, 74, of 1220 4th Street, Nevada, died Tuesday, July 17, at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames. She had been ill for eight months.

Born Aug. 20, 1904 in Flemington, Mo., to William and Mary Clear Collup, she married Willis E. Sylvester June 19, 1926 in Prairie Ceity, Iowa.

She was a Nevada resident for 54 years, a member of the Nevada United Methodist Church an a retired employee of Donnelley Marketing.

Survivors include one son, Max Sylvester of Webster City; one daughter Patty Van Sickle of Nevada; one sister, Ruby Boman of Chanute, Kan.; seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Willis.

Services are Friday, July 20 at 11 a.m. at the Nevada United Methodist Church, with Rev. Harold E. Wagner officiating. Burial follows in Nevada Cemetery. Her family will be at Ryan Funeral Home in Nevada Thursday evening.

A memorial fund has been established.