TRUEBLOOK, Clarence A. (1906-2008)

TRUEBLOOD

Posted By: Don Boucher (email)
Date: 6/6/2013 at 11:11:25

Obituary from The Des Moines Register newspaper, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA on 8-13-2008:

Dr. Clare Andrew Trueblood died at 101 on July 27 at the Village in Indianola. He was born on December 15, 1906 into the small Quaker community of Motor, Iowa to Effie and Samuel Trueblood. When he was three, his family moved to a farm near Indianola, Iowa, where he lived until he graduated from Indianola High School in 1924.

His first year of college, 1925-1926, was spent at William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1929 and from Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia in 1933. He did his internship and residency in internal medicine at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.

In 1936, he married Ethel Bedford and moved to Indianola, Iowa where he began a family medical practice which was to continue for 45 years. His practice was interrupted for 3 years during the Second World War when he served as a physician in the Aleutian Islands and Europe.

In addition to raising their 3 children, Clare and Ethel were active in the Indianola community, with Clare serving on the Indianola School Board for 12 years and on the Town Planning and County Health Boards, as well as taking his turn as coroner and Simpson College physician. In 1975, he and Ethel received the Simpson College Community Achievement Award.

In 1991, Clare and Ethel sold the home they had lived in since1939, and moved to The Village, a Wesley life care retirement community in Indianola.

Ethel, Clare's wife of 58 years, died on September 4, 1994. Dr. Trueblood is lovingly remembered by his three children and their spouses, his 9 grandchildren, and 28 great grandchildren. His children and spouses are the following: Anne Kreisel and her husband, Peter of Burlington, VT; Dr. Ward Trueblood and his wife Nancy of Menlo Park, CA.; Janet Kem and her husband, Dr. David Kem of Edmond, Oklahoma.

There will be a memorial service at the Trinity-United Presbyterian Church of Indianola on Sunday, August 17, at 2 P.M. Donations may be made in Dr. Trueblood's name to William Penn University, Oskaloosa or to the Village Good Shepherd Fund. On line condolences may be sent at www.overtonfunerals.com .