Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 12/ /1964

Clendenning, May Allie (1899 - 1964)

GREENWOOD Mrs. May Clendenning, 65, a lifelong resident of Greenwood, Clark County, died at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1964, at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, where she had been a patient the past month.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Grace Methodist Church in Greenwood. The Rev. Paul Doering will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.
The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood until 11 a.m. Friday, when it will be taken to the church.

The former May Allie Drinkwine was born Aug. 25, 1899 in the Town of Warner, and at the age of 10 years went to live with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gruwell at Greenwood. Her marriage to Leo Clendenning, who preceded her in death in 1949, took place in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mrs. Clendenning was a member of the Grace Methodist Church, the Women s Society of Christian Service, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Forest Queen Camp Royal Neighbors of America, and the Neighborhood Group.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Lyle (Addie) Hubble, Rochester, Mich. and two brothers, Girlen and Joseph Drinkwine, Michigan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother and a sister.