Chrles Mervin McClenahan, 63, local businessman for 35 years and resident of the Sigourney community practically all his life, died at the Sigourney hospital Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock, from a heart attack.
He had been ill with a cold and was not at his place of business, Mac's market, since last Friday. He was stricken early Monday and was reshed to the hospital at 4 o'clock, where he failed to rally. Mr. McClenahan had suffered a heart attack in 1949 but had recovered sufficiently to return to his work.
He was born on a farm near Sigourney on November 16, 1888 and was a son of James and Nancy Ann Norton McClenahan. On May 25, 1910,he was married to Mildred Farmer and they have spent all their married life in Sigourney, with the exception of three years in Kansas City, Missouri. They became the parents of four children, one daughter and three sons. The oldest son, Charles Leo, was killed in a highway accident on October 7, 1940.
Mr. McClenahan has been in the meat market business most of his life first as an employee in local markets, and for the past 35 years in his own market, which was expanded to include other foods. He sold his business to Loren Oldaker, who operated it when Mr. McClenahan's health was not so good, but later Mac bought it back and has been on the job ever since.
Survivng are his wife; one daughter, Mrs J.D. Hughes of Des Moines; two sons, Gene of Glencoe, Illinois and Lee, a pre-medical student at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and three grandchildren, Gene D. Hughes of Des Moines and Charles Leo and Martha McClenahan.
Preceding him in death were his parents; one brother; and four sisters.
Then funeral service is being held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church, with the Rev. W.W. Steinmetz, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in West cemetery.
He had been ill with a cold and was not at his place of business, Mac's market, since last Friday. He was stricken early Monday and was reshed to the hospital at 4 o'clock, where he failed to rally. Mr. McClenahan had suffered a heart attack in 1949 but had recovered sufficiently to return to his work.
He was born on a farm near Sigourney on November 16, 1888 and was a son of James and Nancy Ann Norton McClenahan. On May 25, 1910,he was married to Mildred Farmer and they have spent all their married life in Sigourney, with the exception of three years in Kansas City, Missouri. They became the parents of four children, one daughter and three sons. The oldest son, Charles Leo, was killed in a highway accident on October 7, 1940.
Mr. McClenahan has been in the meat market business most of his life first as an employee in local markets, and for the past 35 years in his own market, which was expanded to include other foods. He sold his business to Loren Oldaker, who operated it when Mr. McClenahan's health was not so good, but later Mac bought it back and has been on the job ever since.
Survivng are his wife; one daughter, Mrs J.D. Hughes of Des Moines; two sons, Gene of Glencoe, Illinois and Lee, a pre-medical student at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and three grandchildren, Gene D. Hughes of Des Moines and Charles Leo and Martha McClenahan.
Preceding him in death were his parents; one brother; and four sisters.
Then funeral service is being held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church, with the Rev. W.W. Steinmetz, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in West cemetery.
Chrles Mervin McClenahan, 63, local businessman for 35 years and resident of the Sigourney community practically all his life, died at the Sigourney hospital Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock, from a heart attack.
He had been ill with a cold and was not at his place of business, Mac's market, since last Friday. He was stricken early Monday and was reshed to the hospital at 4 o'clock, where he failed to rally. Mr. McClenahan had suffered a heart attack in 1949 but had recovered sufficiently to return to his work.
He was born on a farm near Sigourney on November 16, 1888 and was a son of James and Nancy Ann Norton McClenahan. On May 25, 1910,he was married to Mildred Farmer and they have spent all their married life in Sigourney, with the exception of three years in Kansas City, Missouri. They became the parents of four children, one daughter and three sons. The oldest son, Charles Leo, was killed in a highway accident on October 7, 1940.
Mr. McClenahan has been in the meat market business most of his life first as an employee in local markets, and for the past 35 years in his own market, which was expanded to include other foods. He sold his business to Loren Oldaker, who operated it when Mr. McClenahan's health was not so good, but later Mac bought it back and has been on the job ever since.
Survivng are his wife; one daughter, Mrs J.D. Hughes of Des Moines; two sons, Gene of Glencoe, Illinois and Lee, a pre-medical student at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and three grandchildren, Gene D. Hughes of Des Moines and Charles Leo and Martha McClenahan.
Preceding him in death were his parents; one brother; and four sisters.
Then funeral service is being held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church, with the Rev. W.W. Steinmetz, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in West cemetery.
He had been ill with a cold and was not at his place of business, Mac's market, since last Friday. He was stricken early Monday and was reshed to the hospital at 4 o'clock, where he failed to rally. Mr. McClenahan had suffered a heart attack in 1949 but had recovered sufficiently to return to his work.
He was born on a farm near Sigourney on November 16, 1888 and was a son of James and Nancy Ann Norton McClenahan. On May 25, 1910,he was married to Mildred Farmer and they have spent all their married life in Sigourney, with the exception of three years in Kansas City, Missouri. They became the parents of four children, one daughter and three sons. The oldest son, Charles Leo, was killed in a highway accident on October 7, 1940.
Mr. McClenahan has been in the meat market business most of his life first as an employee in local markets, and for the past 35 years in his own market, which was expanded to include other foods. He sold his business to Loren Oldaker, who operated it when Mr. McClenahan's health was not so good, but later Mac bought it back and has been on the job ever since.
Survivng are his wife; one daughter, Mrs J.D. Hughes of Des Moines; two sons, Gene of Glencoe, Illinois and Lee, a pre-medical student at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and three grandchildren, Gene D. Hughes of Des Moines and Charles Leo and Martha McClenahan.
Preceding him in death were his parents; one brother; and four sisters.
Then funeral service is being held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church, with the Rev. W.W. Steinmetz, pastor of the Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in West cemetery.
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