Chester Clodfelter
Born: September 18, 1918 at Mill Grove, Missouri
Died: July 23, 1939 at Webster City, Webster Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 102
Lot Owner: Brock
Married: Helen Hildebrand on May 21, 1938
Parents: Nellie F. Ashcroft 1
Accident Mishap Fatal To Youth, 20
Funeral services were being held here today [tomorrow] for Chester Clodfelter, 20, of Des Moines, who suffered abdominal injuries which later caused his death when his gravel truck left the road eight miles west of Stanhope Sunday morning. He was taken to the hospital at Webster City where he died at 11:15 p.m.
Mr. Clodfelter, son-in-law of William Hildebrand of Newton, had just left the gravel pit at Stratford, Ia., and it was thought the truck hit loose gravel in the road, causing it to overturn and plunge down the 15-foot embankment. His stomach was crushed by a guardrail.
Rites will be conducted here on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Morgan Funeral home with interment following in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Clodfelter was born Sept. 18, 1918 at Mill Grove, Mo. and came to Iowa in 1935. He was united in marriage to Helen Hildebrand of Newton on May 21, 1938. For the past year the couple had resided in Des Moines.
Relatives surviving are his wife and mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chaney of Wheeling, Mo., and two half sisters also of Wheeling. ~ The Newton Daily News, July 24, 1939
1. 1930 U.S. Census, Washington Twp., Daviess Co., Missouri.