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- The Rev. Gilbert H. Clemons, 89, of 196 VanAuken Road, died Monday at Sunrise Nursing Home in Oswego.
The Rev. Mr. Clemons had been an ordained Wesleyan minister since 1941. He had served churches in Maryland, Delaware, Bakers Mills and Redfield, retiring in 1982 and making his home in Lacona.
Born March 27, 1916, in the town of Redfield, son of Melvin and Emma Clifford Clemons, he attended Greenboro Rural School in North Redfield and graduated from God's Bible School, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940.
He married Adelia M. Rudd on Oct. 12, 1940, at the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Methodist Church with the Rev. David Rees and the Rev. A.J. McKenzie officiating. Mrs. Clemons died March 17, 1989.
Surviving are a son, David B., Glens Falls; two daughters and their husbands, Martha and Gary Ammerman, Glens Falls, and Julia and Roy Allen, Lacona; four sisters, Lena Oliver, Texas, Leona Grayson, El Cajon, Calif., Luella Long, Tennessee, and Regina Compton, Florence, Ala.; three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
A sister, Doris Hiller, and a brother, Nelson, died before him.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Sandy Creek Wesleyan Church with the Rev. Brian Snyder officiating. Burial will be in North Boylston Cemetery.
Calling hours will be 7 to 9 p.m. today at the church. Arrangements are with Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek.
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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