Clyde L. Sourwine (1893-1944)

SOURWINE, GUGELER

Posted By: John Davis (email)
Date: 3/2/2020 at 21:11:32

Obit posted in Ottumwa Courier June 6, 1944
Clyde L. Sourwine, 50, Agency route 1, died at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the St. Joseph hospital. The son of George and Lula Sourwine, he was born in Burlington, October 12, 1893. He had been a resident of the Agency community for three years. Prior to that time, he resided for nine years on a farm near Middletown on land that is now a portion of the Iowa ordinance plant area in Burlington. Sourwine was a musician a member of the municipal band there for 20 years. He was a member of the Agency Methodist church. He was a veteran of World war I. As a private in Co. D, development battalion No. 2, 162nd depot brigade, he was inducted July 21, 1918 at Burlington and was discharged December 20, 1918, at Camp Pike, Arkansas. He married Louise B. Gugeler, April 8, 1920, at Burlington. She survives as do his son and daughter, Dennis A. Sourwine, musician first class stationed at Bronson, field, Pensacola, Florida and Miss Shirley Sourwine at home. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Agency Methodist church, the Rev. Edward D. Byrd of the Ottumwa East End Presbyterian church in charge. The body will be at Johnson’s chapel until 11:30 a.m. Friday.