Obit: Elliott, Clifford #3 (1893 - 1956)

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Surnames: Elliott, Nelson, Misfeldt, Tolle

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08/02/1956

Elliott, Clifford #3 (18 JUL 1893 - 31 JUL 1956)

Clifford Elliott, 63, a former Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) resident who now resides at 340 Portland Avenue, Chippewa Falls, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack which occurred at Spooner.  He was employed as a Northern States Co. superintendent.

Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday at the Methodist Church, the Rev. Charles Hanson officiating.  Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Withee.  Friends may call at the Hogle Funeral Home from this noon until Friday noon and at the church from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

He was born July 18, 1893, at Chelsea, Wis., and when a child moved with his family to Owen.

In 1910 he went to work for the Owen Telephone and Light Co., which later was incorporated with the Northern States Power Co.  In 1921 he became manager of the power company at Stanley and later served in a similar capacity at Neillsville and Abbotsford.

In 1936 he moved to Chippewa Falls, as superintendent of the service and meter department and since that time has been employed in that capacity.

He was a member of the Methodist Church, the Knights of Pythias and president of the Civic Band.

Surviving are his wife, four sons, Clifford of Eau Claire, Dale of Abbotsford, James of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Frank of Denver, Colo.; two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Nelson of this city, and Mrs. Charles Misfeldt of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; a sister, Mrs. Blanche Tolle of Chicago; three brothers, Arleigh of Eau Claire, Donald of Stanley, and Kenneth of Flint, Mich.; and 16 grandchildren.