Lenzie Leroy Speedling

SPEEDLING, SCHUSTER, CARR, BEVARD, WASTA

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/15/2016 at 21:29:22

August 10, 1903 --- August 11, 1966

Rites Held for L. L. Speedling, 63
RETIRED CLARION CHIEF OF POLICE

Funeral services for L. L. Speedling, 63, retired chief of police of Clarion, were held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Eyler Funeral home. Mr. Speedling died Thursday afternoon at the Clarion Community Memorial Hospital following a long illness. Mr. Speedling was associated with the Clarion Police Department for 30 years, 20 of which he served as chief. For two years he worked as a special agent in Fort Dodge and Omaha, Nebr. for the Chicago Great Western Railroad. He retired as police chief last year. He is survived by his widow, Naomi; one son, Ben, West Union; one daughter, Mrs. Don Schuster, Thor; two grandchildren; two brothers, James, California, and Floyd, Nashua; and three sisters, Mrs. Maxine Carr and Mrs. Clara Bevard, both of Waterloo, and Mrs. Eugene Wasta, San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Speedling was a member of the Church of Christ, the Wright County Peace Officers Association and the State Peace Officers Association.

Wright County Monitor -- Clarion, Iowa
August 18, 1966