Philip LITTLEFIELD

LITTLEFIELD, BERTIE, LOKEN, JACOBY, HILL, SHUPE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/19/2006 at 23:22:52

Philip Littlefield, 78, of Clarion, died Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at Community Memorial Hospital, Clarion. Funeral services were held Friday, April 27, at the United Church of Christ Congregational, Clarion. Rev. Curt Miner officiated at the 1 p.m. service. Burial was held Monday, April 30 at Fort Snelling Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Willim Funeral Home of Clarion was in charge of arrangements.

Philip Littlefield was born September 10, 1922, in Clarion, the son of Leo Charles and Mary Alberta (Bertie) Littlefield. A 1941 Clarion High School graduate, Phil served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in 1947, where he studied gemology and watchmaking. Phil was a member of the Clarion United Methodist Church during his youth. On February 5, 1949, he was united in marriage to Grace Loken at Spencer. He was later baptized into the Baptist faith. He was employed in Clarion and Grinnell before moving to the Minneapolis area where he was a jeweler, eventually owning his own store until his retirement. He moved to Clarion in July 2000. One of his hobbies included buying junked Triumph Spitfire cars and restoring them with his son, John. Together they restored and sold the cars. He enjoyed being with family and friends and attending a variety of churches and worship styles. People with whom Phil met and associated knew him to be a gentle man.

He is survived by one son, John Littlefield and wife, Susan of Greenfield, Minnesota; one daughter, Linda Jacoby and husband, Erik of Victoria, Minnesota; three grandchildren; two sisters, Jessie Shupe of Clarion and Leona (Teddy) Hill of Fresno, California; and special companion, Beth Lyons of Clarion. He was preceded in death by his wife, Grace in 1998 and an infant son, Gary.

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