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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, May 26, 1971 September 14, 1872 ~ December 11, 1955 Services Held For Apache Man Apache, December 13-- Funeral services for John J. Clancy, retired Apache farmer who died Sunday in a Lawton hospital, were held Tuesday from the Mother of Sorrows Catholic church in Apache, with Rev. John Ceffai officiating. He was born on September 14, 1872, in St. Joseph, Mo. He moved to Kansas, where he farmed until 1912, and moved to Fayetteville, Ark., in 1912, and then moved to Apache in 1936. He was married to the former Miss Frances Lee Wooldridge in 1911. She preceded him in death in 1946. Among the survivors are: three sons, Lawrence and Frank of Copeland, Kans., and James of Colby, Kans.; three daughters, Mrs. Valery Vap of Apache, Miss Helen Clancy of Wichita, and Miss Catherine Clancy of Winfield; three brothers, Charles and Frank of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Emmett of Copeland; and three grandchildren. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, May 26, 1971 December 29, 1879 ~ May 20, 1971 Apache Rites held For Retired Rancher Graveside rites for Charles S. Clancy, former area cattleman and early-day football star, were held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Fairview cemetery at Apache. Clancy died Thursday, May 20, in a nursing home at Colorado Springs following an extended illness. A requiem mass was said Saturday in Colorado Springs at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church. He and his brothers, James and Frank, owned and operated a ranch 15 miles south of Carnegie. On the ranch was a lake called "Clancy's Lake" where several Carnegie high school classes held their class picnics and swimming parties in the 1920's and 1930's. Clancy played football for 11 years, part of the time in professional football. He began his career in Lindsborg, Kansas with "The Terrible Swedes" in 1904. His first coach there was Bennie Owens who later was coach at the University of Oklahoma and was in the Football Hall of Fame. Owens used to visit Clancy on his ranch and hunted with him. He attended Fairmont College in Wichita, Kan. for a year, and Eppworth College in Oklahoma City two years. He also attended Pittsburgh University as a medical student when the school was Old Allegheny. Clancy was on the football team when the school played the Carlisle Indians when Jim Thorpe, the all-time great, was a member of the team. Clancy played halfback, fullback and did the punting. He was All-American at Pittsburgh and was a friend of Hans Wagner when he was shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Clancy could have gone into professional baseball but elected to go into ranching instead. He lived on the ranch for 44 years before moving to Colorado Springs in 1948. Born December 29, 1879 at Hutchinson, Kan., he was married to Maude Doane in Sacred Heart Church in 1948. He is survived by a step-son, Richard Doane, of New York; a step-daughter, Mrs. Betty Johnson of Nassau, Bahama Islands; two nephews, James J. Donnelly of Flagler, Colo. and James Clancy of Beatrice, Neb.; a grand-nephew, Mike Donnelly of Colorado State University; and other nephews and nieces, including Lawrence Clancy, Mrs. Aileen Vap, and Frank Clancy of Copeland, Kan., Helen Clancy, Wichita, Kan., Catherine Clancy, Dodge City, and Mrs. Esther Fallon, Fort Sumner, N.M. Obit furnished by Lillian. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, October 6, 1886 ~ January 15, 1937 Wm. Clancy Funeral At Apache Monday Funeral services were held at the Apache Catholic church at 10 a.m. Monday for William "Mike" Clancy, 50, veteran of the World war. Mr. Clancy was one of the well known Clancy brothers of south of Carnegie and formerly lived in Lawton. For the past to years he has lived at Copeland, Kansas where he made his home at the time of his death. Burial was in the Apache cemetery. He is survived by his brothers, Frank and Charlie of this place; John of Fayetteville, Arkansas; and Emmett of Copeland. Friends from Carnegie who attended the service included M.G. Tunnell, M. Goodman, S.S. Ferrell and J.R. Thomas. |
© Crews Funeral Home Apache, Caddo CO, Oklahoma December 1999 December 20, 1912 ~ December 6, 1999 Services were held 10-Dec-1999 at Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Apache, Caddo co., Ok. for Lawrence Emmitt Clancy who died 06-Dec-1999 at Edmond, Ok. Burial was in the Fairview Cemetery at Apache under the direction of the Crews Funeral Home of Apache. Clancy was born 20-Dec-1912 in Fayetteville, Ark. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served during WWII. After his discharge from the army he moved to Apache with his parents. He then moved to Copeland, Kan., where he farmed and worked at the Copeland Co-op. After his retirement in 1979 he returned to Apache where he resided until 1997 when he moved to Edmond. He was a member of the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Apache. He was survived by two sisters, and one brother. |
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