Pierce - Cordlia McClelland
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review, 3 April 1963
Funeral
services for Mrs. Lyle E. Pierce, native of Crawfordsville, were held
Wednesday in a mortuary in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. Mrs. Pierce,
the former Cordelia Louise McClelland, died April 1 in Billings Hospital
in Chicago following a long illness. Mrs. Pierce, 53, had lived in Oak
Park many years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P.
McClelland, and was born in Crawfordsville Sept 4, 1909. Her mother now
lives in the Masonic Home at Franklin. Her father died in 1935. She was
graduated from Crawfordsville HS in 1927 and attended the University of
Illinois in Champaign. She received her bachelor's degree in the School
of Music at Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill and was a member of
the Kappa Delta Social Sorority. Survivors include the widower, Lyle E, 3
children: Alfred, William and Barbara; the mother, Edith McClelland and
a brother, Gilbert McClelland.