Obit: Daines, Clifford "Chick" #2 (1907 - 1961)

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Surnames: Daines, Nelson, Speich, Tischendorf, Erickson

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 12/14/1961

Daines, Clifford "Chick" #2 (13 FEB 1907 - 8 DEC 1961)

Funeral services were held for Clifford "Chick" Daines at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home.  Rev. Ralph Claybaugh, pastor of the First Congregational, Owen, read the final rites.  Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery where military rites were conducted by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Colby.

Serving as pallbearers were Archie Nourse, Nick LePage, Herman Heldt, Al Boxrucker, Emory Sorenson and Melvin Jarchow.  Carrying the floral offerings were Mesdames Archie Nourse, Herman Heldt, Al Boxrucker, Emory Sorenson and Ervin Zelm.

Clifford Glenn Daines was 54 years, 9 months and 25 days of age, being born Feb. 13, 1907, at Colby, Wis.  Here he received his education, being graduated from the public school system.  He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the VFW Post at Colby.  For the past 15 years he made his home in Owen, gaining a host of friends with his congenial easygoing personality.  During this tenure he served as a driver for Western-Foremost Dairies.

His suicidal death, discovered by his wife when she returned home from work shortly after 3:00 p.m. Friday, has been attributed to a marital rift.  Death was inflicted by a 22 caliber bullet.

Survivors include his wife, the former Pauline Nelson, whom he married Oct. 29, 1960, at Withee., three stepchildren, Mrs. Kenneth (Sally) Speich, Greenwood, Virginia Nelson, and William Nelson Jr., Owen; two sisters, Mrs. Fred (Mildred) Tischendorf, and Mrs. James (Louise) Erickson, Dorchester.