Clodfelter - Carl
Source: Found in a collection of old obituaries saved by Mary Jo Johnson, found in Crawfordsville District Public Library. We appreciate Mary Jo's willingness to share these. (Used with permission)
Carl Clodfelter Rites Thursday
(Handwritten in is: May 18-1964.)
Funeral services for Carl Clodfelter, 65, well known north Putnam farmer, who was killed in a traffic accident on U.S. 36 near Morton Monday noon, will be held at the Hopkins-Walton Funeral Home in this city at 2 p.m. Thursday with burial in the Hebron Cemetery.
Mr. Clodfelter was injured fatally when the tractor he was driving and pulling a 4-wheel farm wagon loaded with baled hay was hit in the rear by a semi driven by James Douglas Mayberry, 24, Cooksville, Tennessee.
State police said both men were going east. The impact threw Mr. Clodfelter off the tractor.
Mayberry was arrested on a reckless homicide charge by State Trooper Ted Settle and lodged in the Putnam County jail.
The deceased was born in Putnam County on August 5, 1898, the son of Jack and Anna Ardell Carrington Clodfelter.
He was married to Grace M. Wood in Greencastle, December 3, 1925.
Mr. Clodfelter was a member of the Russellville Christian Church, the Russellville American Legion Post and was a veteran of World War I.
He graduated from the Clinton Center School, Crawfordsville High School, Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute and also attended Purdue University.
He is survived by the widow; four sons, Paul, Chicago; Myron, Greencastle, Route 1; Gordon, Chamblee, Georgia; Larry, at home; one brother, Ralph of Bainbridge; five sisters, Daisy Alexander, Morton; Maude Welter, Gary, Bessie Alexander, and Irene Romine, Indianapolis, Josephine Nevins, Greencastle, and seven grandchildren. His parents, two brothers, Manford and Ray, and one sister, Lavina Vermillion preceded him in death.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 this evening.
