Tom N. McClelland 1911 - 2002

MCCLELLAND, NIEBEL, FISHER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/20/2020 at 10:31:54

Sioux City Journal
23 August 2002

Tom N. McClelland, 90, of Waterloo, Iowa formerly of Sioux City, died Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo following a lengthy illness.

Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Friendship Village Chapel in Waterloo. His body has been donated to the University of Iowa Medical School. Visitation will be 3 to 6 p.m. today at Locke Funeral Home in Waterloo.

Mr. McClelland was born August 29, 1911 in Alburnett, Iowa, the son of Emmett Ross and Amah Viola (Niebel) McClelland. He graduated from East High School in Waterloo in 1929, the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor degree in 1935 and from the University of Iowa with a master’s degree in education in 1940.

He served in the U.S. Navy at the Recruit Training Command during World War II.

He married Geraldine Mae Fisher on August 14, 1935, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

He was a coach and principal at Alburnett High School in 1935, Orange High School in rural Waterloo from 1936 to 1941 and Knoxville High School in Knoxville, Iowa in 1942. He began working for Iowa Public Service in Sioux City in 1942. He worked for I.P.S. for over 30 years, retiring in 1975 as director of employee relations.

He served as county chairman for the Woodbury Chapter of the American Cancer Society. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Waterloo, served on the board of trustees at Grace Methodist Church in Waterloo and was a former president of the Sioux City and Waterloo Lion’s Clubs.

He served on the board of Friendship Villager Foundation in Waterloo, and was a member of Siouxland Council on Alcoholism, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Waterloo B.P.O.E. 290, Waterloo Amvets 19 and Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. He was a holder of instrument and commercial pilot ratings.

Survivors include his wife, Geraldine of Waterloo; two daughters and their husbands, Mabryn R. and Richard Fleener of Kingwood, Texas and Jane E. and Larry Gabe of Salem, South Carolina; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.