Claude Amel Isom (1902 - 1982)

Born 16 Jul 1902 in Buncombe, Johnson County, Illinois, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Gracie Mae (Woods) Krou — married 25 Sep 1924 (to 1940) in Johnson, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1982 at age 79 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA

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Biography

Claude was born in 1902. He was the son of Thomas Isom and Susan Ragsdale. He passed away in 1982.

Wednesday, January 27, 1982 Rochester Sentinel

C. Amel ISOM, 79, of 525 N. Michigan St., Argos, died Tuesday at 2:45 p.m. in Woodlawn Hospital where he had been a patient one day. Funeral arrangements are pending at Grossman Funeral Home in Argos.

Thursday, January 28, 1982 Rochester Sentinel

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Grossman Funeral Home at Argos for C. Amel ISOM, 79, of 525 N. Michigan St., Argos, who died at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday in Woodlawn Hospital where he was a patient one day.

The Rev. Ray OVIATT will officiate and burial will be in the Argos Maple Grove Cemetery. Friends may call today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. until time of services.

Mr. Isom was born July 16, 1902 in Buncombe, Ill., and moved to Argos five years ago from Oxford Junction, Iowa. He was a retired employee of the Iowa State Reformatory at Anamosa, Iowa.

Surviving are three daughters, Lora LOOMAN, Knox; Gracie KLINEDENST, Plymouth, and Lillie WORLEY, Logansport; two sons, William [ISOM], Nevato, Calif., and Donald [ISOM], in Oregon; twenty-one grandchildren; and twenty-six great-grandchildren. Two wives preceded in death, as did a daughter, Lela COCHRAN of Rochester. ∼ Amel was first married to Gracie Mae Woods 24 Sept 1924 Johnson County, Illinois. They were divorced in 1940 Marshall Co., Indiana. He married second Lela Unknown.

His full name per 1920 Cache, Johnson, Illinois Census: Claude A. Isom Son M 17 living with his parents.

Sources

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