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Verner Llewellyn Lewis
1893 - 1962
November 9, 1893 - September 15, 1962
Verner Llewellyn Lewis
Born November 9, 1893, passed away, 9:30 A. M., Saturday, September 15, 1962, at
Veterans Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa. Age 69.
Born to Blanche F. and Llewellyn C. P. Lewis, a pioneer Klemme family, he spent
his childhood and attended both grade and high school in the Klemme area. On May
21, 1918 at the age of 21 he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. During his enlistment
he served with the Atlantic Fleet aboard the Battleship Arkansas. Released a
year later at the end of World War I he returned home.
On May 26, 1920, he was married to Lena Coobs. After the wedding the new family
moved to Hayfield, Minnesota, where they lived for four years. In 1924 they
returned to the Klemme area where they remained and raised a family of four
children. He is a member of the American Legion, Adam-Schaefer Post at Klemme.
He leaves to mourn him: his wife, Lena; sons, Glen of Santa Rosa, California,
and Laverne of Downey, California; daughters, Evelyn of Oakland, California and
Luella of Balaton, Minnesota; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Holly of San
Diego, California and Charles of Long Beach, California. He also leaves nieces
and nephews and many friends.
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Verner Llewellyn Lewis: born
9 Nov 1893 Klemme, Hancock County, Iowa - died 15 Sep 1962 Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa
Grave marker at Calvary Cemetery, Klemme, Hancock County, Iowa - Block 2, Lot 46
Husband of Lena Coobs, born 1894 - died 1977
- Father of:
Glenn Verner Lewis (1921-2009)
Luella Blanche Lewis Johnson (1926-2011)
source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 113932744
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