DECATUR Daily Review 1/16/1950
IRA CLOKEY DIES IN WEST
Ira W.Clokey, 77, botanist, mining engineer and real estate man, formerly of Decatur, died last week in California where he made his home.
The body will be returned for services in the family mausoleum at 11 am Wednesday in Greenwood cemetery. The Dawson & Wikoff funeral home will be in charge.
He left here in 1924 to move to Long Beach,Calif, where he was a botanist. a graduate of the Harvard school of mines, Mr.Clokey served seven years as a mining expert in Mexico and Colorado. He returned here in 1924 and laid out of the Elms, a real estate development in the north part of the city. His father was Col. Josiah M.Clokey, real estate man and lawyers who made gifts of land to the city for use as parks, boulevards on E. Main street and E. Prairie Ave.were laid out by him. Clokey park is on E. Main street.
Mr. Clokey leaves his wife, Eleanor and two daughters, Caroline and Eleanor.
IRA CLOKEY DIES IN WEST
Ira W.Clokey, 77, botanist, mining engineer and real estate man, formerly of Decatur, died last week in California where he made his home.
The body will be returned for services in the family mausoleum at 11 am Wednesday in Greenwood cemetery. The Dawson & Wikoff funeral home will be in charge.
He left here in 1924 to move to Long Beach,Calif, where he was a botanist. a graduate of the Harvard school of mines, Mr.Clokey served seven years as a mining expert in Mexico and Colorado. He returned here in 1924 and laid out of the Elms, a real estate development in the north part of the city. His father was Col. Josiah M.Clokey, real estate man and lawyers who made gifts of land to the city for use as parks, boulevards on E. Main street and E. Prairie Ave.were laid out by him. Clokey park is on E. Main street.
Mr. Clokey leaves his wife, Eleanor and two daughters, Caroline and Eleanor.
DECATUR Daily Review 1/16/1950
IRA CLOKEY DIES IN WEST
Ira W.Clokey, 77, botanist, mining engineer and real estate man, formerly of Decatur, died last week in California where he made his home.
The body will be returned for services in the family mausoleum at 11 am Wednesday in Greenwood cemetery. The Dawson & Wikoff funeral home will be in charge.
He left here in 1924 to move to Long Beach,Calif, where he was a botanist. a graduate of the Harvard school of mines, Mr.Clokey served seven years as a mining expert in Mexico and Colorado. He returned here in 1924 and laid out of the Elms, a real estate development in the north part of the city. His father was Col. Josiah M.Clokey, real estate man and lawyers who made gifts of land to the city for use as parks, boulevards on E. Main street and E. Prairie Ave.were laid out by him. Clokey park is on E. Main street.
Mr. Clokey leaves his wife, Eleanor and two daughters, Caroline and Eleanor.
IRA CLOKEY DIES IN WEST
Ira W.Clokey, 77, botanist, mining engineer and real estate man, formerly of Decatur, died last week in California where he made his home.
The body will be returned for services in the family mausoleum at 11 am Wednesday in Greenwood cemetery. The Dawson & Wikoff funeral home will be in charge.
He left here in 1924 to move to Long Beach,Calif, where he was a botanist. a graduate of the Harvard school of mines, Mr.Clokey served seven years as a mining expert in Mexico and Colorado. He returned here in 1924 and laid out of the Elms, a real estate development in the north part of the city. His father was Col. Josiah M.Clokey, real estate man and lawyers who made gifts of land to the city for use as parks, boulevards on E. Main street and E. Prairie Ave.were laid out by him. Clokey park is on E. Main street.
Mr. Clokey leaves his wife, Eleanor and two daughters, Caroline and Eleanor.
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