CLORE, LaRoy

Source: Unknown Newspaper

Friends and relatives from many surrounding cities and the country attended the funeral services for Laroy Clore last Friday at 2 p.m. in the Veedersburg Methodist Church. Their presence and the numerous floral offerings which virtually blanketed the front of the church were a tribute to the loving regard in which he was held in both town and rural areas. He had died on Tuesday 48 hours after a heart attack. The Rev. George Beatty of Alamo a former pastor and the present initer ? and the Rev. Richard Haley a former pastor now of Renssalaer, conducted the services and shared the scripture readings. Rev. Beatty read the obituary and Rev. Mr. Haley delivered the eulogy. Two solos were sung by Mrs. Kay Quesenberry of Chicago; a friend of Mr. Clore's daughter, Mrs. Loris Kummer who resides in Chicago with Mrs. Rosemary Cronk as accompanist. Mrs. Hazel Coats of Attica read Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." Mr. Clore's life had been spent in Fountain County devoted to agriculture, church and family life. He was born near Wallace, attended Wabash College, married Laurel Coats and reared a family of sons, Vernis and Eldon and latter deceased and the daughter, Loris. His faithfulness to the church and to the Fountain County Farm Bureau in which he became manager of the insurance department was well known. Almost his last act, before he was stricken on Sunday afternoon Aug 13 was to place fresh flowers in the vase beside the photograph of Eldon on the piano in the home a few rods from where Eldon lay in Rockfield Cemetery. Five days later, "Roy" rested in the same plot with the son. - kbz

Note: According to FindAGrave, Laroy Clore was born 19 August 1875 in Montgomery County, son of Elijah and Jane Deer Clore

He married Anna Laurel Coats in Fountain County 14 Dec 1897 and passed on 15 August 1950 in Fountain County