Funeral services for Clair L. Waters will be conducted in Behrens Mortuary at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Taylor Neely. Waters died in a Hot Springs hospital Sunday. He was 68.
Burial will be in Black Hills National Cemetery.
Waters was born in Chapin, Iowa, March 8, 1895. He moved to South Dakota with his parents in 1911. He married the former Mable Beatty in Watertown in 1922.
The family lived in Watertown for about four years, then moved to the Tabor area where they farmed for 11 years.
The Waters family moved to Rapid City in 1937. He had been employed by the South Dakota Concrete Products Co., at Ellsworth AFB, at the VA Hospital in Fort Meade, and preceding his retirement three years ago, had been a custodian at the School of Mines and Technology for about 13 years.
He was a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are his wife; five sons, Kenneth Waters of Pleasant Hills, Calif., Keith Waters of Sacramento, Calif., Everett Waters of Los Angeles, and Gerald and Allan Waters, both of Rapid City; six daughters, Shirley Waters of Rapid City, Mrs. Allen (Mabel) Muhlbach of Casper, Wyo., Mrs. James (Louise) Seiler of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Richard (Joyce) Downey of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Roger (Ruth) King of Rancho Cordova, Calif., and Mrs. Garnet (Frances) Bolen of Lake Charles, La.; 26 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; a brother, Elmer Waters of Yankton, and a sister, Mrs. Vera Lang of Scottsbluff, Neb.
Funeral services for Clair L. Waters will be conducted in Behrens Mortuary at 2 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Taylor Neely. Waters died in a Hot Springs hospital Sunday. He was 68.
Burial will be in Black Hills National Cemetery.
Waters was born in Chapin, Iowa, March 8, 1895. He moved to South Dakota with his parents in 1911. He married the former Mable Beatty in Watertown in 1922.
The family lived in Watertown for about four years, then moved to the Tabor area where they farmed for 11 years.
The Waters family moved to Rapid City in 1937. He had been employed by the South Dakota Concrete Products Co., at Ellsworth AFB, at the VA Hospital in Fort Meade, and preceding his retirement three years ago, had been a custodian at the School of Mines and Technology for about 13 years.
He was a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are his wife; five sons, Kenneth Waters of Pleasant Hills, Calif., Keith Waters of Sacramento, Calif., Everett Waters of Los Angeles, and Gerald and Allan Waters, both of Rapid City; six daughters, Shirley Waters of Rapid City, Mrs. Allen (Mabel) Muhlbach of Casper, Wyo., Mrs. James (Louise) Seiler of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Richard (Joyce) Downey of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Roger (Ruth) King of Rancho Cordova, Calif., and Mrs. Garnet (Frances) Bolen of Lake Charles, La.; 26 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; a brother, Elmer Waters of Yankton, and a sister, Mrs. Vera Lang of Scottsbluff, Neb.
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