Clausen Peden services set today

BELEN –Services will be held today for Clausen Peden, 89, a retired Quitman County chancery clerk who died Saturday at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center after a long illness.
Peden, who was chancery clerk from 1952 to 1964, was also a retired merchant, a member of the Quitman County Board of Supervisors for eight years and a charter member of Marks Rotary Club. He also organized and incorporated the Belen Cemetery Committee, of which he was secretary-treasurer.
Services will be at 2 p.m. at Belen Baptist Church, where he was a member with burial in the Belen Cemetery. Kimbro Funeral Home of Marks is in charge of arrangements.
Peden the husband of Virginia Peden, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Doty of Coldwater, a son, Cooper Peden of Belen, five grandchildren, and a great grandchild.

This was in Nov. 16, 1987 edition of the Clarksdale Press Register.

Clausen Peden services set today

BELEN –Services will be held today for Clausen Peden, 89, a retired Quitman County chancery clerk who died Saturday at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center after a long illness.
Peden, who was chancery clerk from 1952 to 1964, was also a retired merchant, a member of the Quitman County Board of Supervisors for eight years and a charter member of Marks Rotary Club. He also organized and incorporated the Belen Cemetery Committee, of which he was secretary-treasurer.
Services will be at 2 p.m. at Belen Baptist Church, where he was a member with burial in the Belen Cemetery. Kimbro Funeral Home of Marks is in charge of arrangements.
Peden the husband of Virginia Peden, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Doty of Coldwater, a son, Cooper Peden of Belen, five grandchildren, and a great grandchild.

This was in Nov. 16, 1987 edition of the Clarksdale Press Register.