Durward Clayton's Obituary
Durward T. Clayton, 98, of Vandalia, died at 10:06 p.m. on
Monday at Fayette County Hospital Long Term Care in
Vandalia.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Hohlt and
File Funeral Home in Vandalia, with Dr. Roger Grimmett, and Revs.
Louis Frick and Harry Kirk officiating. Burial will be in Moccasin
Cemetery in Beecher City. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until
time of services on Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials:
Operation Christmas Child (make checks payable to First United
Methodist Church and put Operation Christmas Child or OCC in the
Memo line).
Mr. Clayton was born on Aug. 10, 1915, in Charleston, the
son of Henry P. and Lilly M. Kramer Clayton. He married Joan
Kesterson on Sept. 19, 1964.
He was employed by Beecher Foods-Meadow Gold Dairy for 46 years,
and was a member of First United Methodist Church in
Vandalia.
He is survived by his wife, Joan Clayton of Vandalia;
daughters, Anna Phipps of Fenton, Mo., and Sharon and her husband
Art Knueppe of Afton, Mo.; and grandchildren, great-grandchildren
and great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Tom Clayton; and a
brother, Glenn Clayton.
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