Ray W. Clyde (1880-1936)

CLYDE, CASH, DANFORTH

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/28/2010 at 20:08:00

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Monday, December 21, 1936.

R. W. Clyde, 56, Is Victim of Pneumonia

Ray W. Clyde, 56, superintendent of buildings and grounds at the Iowa state highway commission, 708 Ridgewood avenue, died at Mary Greeley hospital at 4 a. m., Sunday following a two weeks illness with pneumonia.

Funeral services will be held from the Adams chapel here at 10 a. m., and at Osage at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. J. D. Dern of the Baptist church at Osage will be in charge of both services. Burial will be at Osage.

Mr. Clyde was born at St. Ansgar Feb. 26, 1880, the son of the late Judge and Mrs. J. F. Clyde, who lived at Osage for a number of years.

Following graduation from Iowa State college in 1905, Mr. Clyde was engaged in engineering on the Panama canal for four years and in Cuba for four years. He had been employed at the highway commission since 1915.

Mr. Clyde was a member of the Baptist church and of the Osage Masonic Lodge. He was married to Vera Cash at Des Moines in August, 1915.

Surviving him are his wife and two children, Gordon and Janet, also three brothers, Frank, Isle of Pines, Cuba; John, Oakland, Cal., and Arthur, State College, Pa., and two sisters, Mary Clyde and Mrs. Flora Danforth, Osage.