ROY R. CLINE, 72, SUCCUMBS MONDAY
. Roy R. Cline, 72, Champaign attorney and state's attorney for three terms from 1920 to 1932, died at 7:25 p.m. Monday in Champaign County Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for three days.
. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Mittendorf Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald R. Crocker officiating and burial will be in Ingram Cemetery, near White Heath.
. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Mittendorf Chapel.
. Pall bearers will be Lyle Primmer, Albert Tuxhorn, Don Richmond, Richard Michael, Dr. Ralph Yeatter and Ralph Burt.
. Mr Cline was born Oct. 22, 1884, at White Heath, son of Jacob and Josephine Knott Cline. He had lived at 1012 W. Daniel St. for 42 years.
. On Nov. 9, 1907, he was married to Lena E. Dove at Wheaton. They had a son, Dr. J. Max Cline, 1908 Galen Dr., and a daughter, Josephine Cline, 1012 W. Daniel St., secretary to the public relations director for the secretary of state, Springfield.
. Besides the widow and children, Mr. Cline leaves a brother, O.L. Cline, Monticello, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Stevens, Monticello.
. Mr. Cline received his education in Urbana where he was a football letteman at Urbana High School; Illinois State Normal University, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
. His law practice began here in 1913 in the office of Boggs and Little, and seven years later he was elected state's attorney on the Republican ticket.
. Except for his courthouse tenure, Cline had maintained an office in the Lincoln Building, 44 Main St., since it was built about 1916.
. In 1932, after three terms as state's attorney, Mr. Cline chose to run for the Republican nomination for the state senate. In 1936 he won his party's nomination for state senator, but was defeated in the election by W.E.C. Clifford, Champaign.
. He again sought the senatorial nomination in 1939, but was defeated by Sen. Everett R. Peters.
. A colorful figure in the courtroom, Mr. Cline handled many trial cases during his years as state's attorney and because of an incident involving diamond salesmen in 1925, he could boast of once having won a moral victory over the famed Clarence Darrow in a court battle.
. He held three degrees from Georgetown University and taught schools near White Heath at one time.
. Mr. Cline was a member of First Methodist Church, Champaign; Kiwanis and Champaign County Bar Association.
. He was an assistant attorney general, master in chancery; had been president of the States Attorneys Association for two terms and was a former county chairman of the Republican Central Committee.
Published in the Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, Wednesday, January 2, 1957.
. Roy R. Cline, 72, Champaign attorney and state's attorney for three terms from 1920 to 1932, died at 7:25 p.m. Monday in Champaign County Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for three days.
. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Mittendorf Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald R. Crocker officiating and burial will be in Ingram Cemetery, near White Heath.
. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Mittendorf Chapel.
. Pall bearers will be Lyle Primmer, Albert Tuxhorn, Don Richmond, Richard Michael, Dr. Ralph Yeatter and Ralph Burt.
. Mr Cline was born Oct. 22, 1884, at White Heath, son of Jacob and Josephine Knott Cline. He had lived at 1012 W. Daniel St. for 42 years.
. On Nov. 9, 1907, he was married to Lena E. Dove at Wheaton. They had a son, Dr. J. Max Cline, 1908 Galen Dr., and a daughter, Josephine Cline, 1012 W. Daniel St., secretary to the public relations director for the secretary of state, Springfield.
. Besides the widow and children, Mr. Cline leaves a brother, O.L. Cline, Monticello, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Stevens, Monticello.
. Mr. Cline received his education in Urbana where he was a football letteman at Urbana High School; Illinois State Normal University, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
. His law practice began here in 1913 in the office of Boggs and Little, and seven years later he was elected state's attorney on the Republican ticket.
. Except for his courthouse tenure, Cline had maintained an office in the Lincoln Building, 44 Main St., since it was built about 1916.
. In 1932, after three terms as state's attorney, Mr. Cline chose to run for the Republican nomination for the state senate. In 1936 he won his party's nomination for state senator, but was defeated in the election by W.E.C. Clifford, Champaign.
. He again sought the senatorial nomination in 1939, but was defeated by Sen. Everett R. Peters.
. A colorful figure in the courtroom, Mr. Cline handled many trial cases during his years as state's attorney and because of an incident involving diamond salesmen in 1925, he could boast of once having won a moral victory over the famed Clarence Darrow in a court battle.
. He held three degrees from Georgetown University and taught schools near White Heath at one time.
. Mr. Cline was a member of First Methodist Church, Champaign; Kiwanis and Champaign County Bar Association.
. He was an assistant attorney general, master in chancery; had been president of the States Attorneys Association for two terms and was a former county chairman of the Republican Central Committee.
Published in the Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, Wednesday, January 2, 1957.
ROY R. CLINE, 72, SUCCUMBS MONDAY
. Roy R. Cline, 72, Champaign attorney and state's attorney for three terms from 1920 to 1932, died at 7:25 p.m. Monday in Champaign County Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for three days.
. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Mittendorf Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald R. Crocker officiating and burial will be in Ingram Cemetery, near White Heath.
. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Mittendorf Chapel.
. Pall bearers will be Lyle Primmer, Albert Tuxhorn, Don Richmond, Richard Michael, Dr. Ralph Yeatter and Ralph Burt.
. Mr Cline was born Oct. 22, 1884, at White Heath, son of Jacob and Josephine Knott Cline. He had lived at 1012 W. Daniel St. for 42 years.
. On Nov. 9, 1907, he was married to Lena E. Dove at Wheaton. They had a son, Dr. J. Max Cline, 1908 Galen Dr., and a daughter, Josephine Cline, 1012 W. Daniel St., secretary to the public relations director for the secretary of state, Springfield.
. Besides the widow and children, Mr. Cline leaves a brother, O.L. Cline, Monticello, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Stevens, Monticello.
. Mr. Cline received his education in Urbana where he was a football letteman at Urbana High School; Illinois State Normal University, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
. His law practice began here in 1913 in the office of Boggs and Little, and seven years later he was elected state's attorney on the Republican ticket.
. Except for his courthouse tenure, Cline had maintained an office in the Lincoln Building, 44 Main St., since it was built about 1916.
. In 1932, after three terms as state's attorney, Mr. Cline chose to run for the Republican nomination for the state senate. In 1936 he won his party's nomination for state senator, but was defeated in the election by W.E.C. Clifford, Champaign.
. He again sought the senatorial nomination in 1939, but was defeated by Sen. Everett R. Peters.
. A colorful figure in the courtroom, Mr. Cline handled many trial cases during his years as state's attorney and because of an incident involving diamond salesmen in 1925, he could boast of once having won a moral victory over the famed Clarence Darrow in a court battle.
. He held three degrees from Georgetown University and taught schools near White Heath at one time.
. Mr. Cline was a member of First Methodist Church, Champaign; Kiwanis and Champaign County Bar Association.
. He was an assistant attorney general, master in chancery; had been president of the States Attorneys Association for two terms and was a former county chairman of the Republican Central Committee.
Published in the Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, Wednesday, January 2, 1957.
. Roy R. Cline, 72, Champaign attorney and state's attorney for three terms from 1920 to 1932, died at 7:25 p.m. Monday in Champaign County Nursing Home, where he had been a patient for three days.
. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Mittendorf Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald R. Crocker officiating and burial will be in Ingram Cemetery, near White Heath.
. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Mittendorf Chapel.
. Pall bearers will be Lyle Primmer, Albert Tuxhorn, Don Richmond, Richard Michael, Dr. Ralph Yeatter and Ralph Burt.
. Mr Cline was born Oct. 22, 1884, at White Heath, son of Jacob and Josephine Knott Cline. He had lived at 1012 W. Daniel St. for 42 years.
. On Nov. 9, 1907, he was married to Lena E. Dove at Wheaton. They had a son, Dr. J. Max Cline, 1908 Galen Dr., and a daughter, Josephine Cline, 1012 W. Daniel St., secretary to the public relations director for the secretary of state, Springfield.
. Besides the widow and children, Mr. Cline leaves a brother, O.L. Cline, Monticello, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Stevens, Monticello.
. Mr. Cline received his education in Urbana where he was a football letteman at Urbana High School; Illinois State Normal University, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
. His law practice began here in 1913 in the office of Boggs and Little, and seven years later he was elected state's attorney on the Republican ticket.
. Except for his courthouse tenure, Cline had maintained an office in the Lincoln Building, 44 Main St., since it was built about 1916.
. In 1932, after three terms as state's attorney, Mr. Cline chose to run for the Republican nomination for the state senate. In 1936 he won his party's nomination for state senator, but was defeated in the election by W.E.C. Clifford, Champaign.
. He again sought the senatorial nomination in 1939, but was defeated by Sen. Everett R. Peters.
. A colorful figure in the courtroom, Mr. Cline handled many trial cases during his years as state's attorney and because of an incident involving diamond salesmen in 1925, he could boast of once having won a moral victory over the famed Clarence Darrow in a court battle.
. He held three degrees from Georgetown University and taught schools near White Heath at one time.
. Mr. Cline was a member of First Methodist Church, Champaign; Kiwanis and Champaign County Bar Association.
. He was an assistant attorney general, master in chancery; had been president of the States Attorneys Association for two terms and was a former county chairman of the Republican Central Committee.
Published in the Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette, Wednesday, January 2, 1957.
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