Unknown County IN Archives Obituaries.....Kenworthy, Clarkson Alvin March 31, 1977 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com August 5, 2008, 7:39 pm 1 April 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY TIMES of Greenfield, Ohio. OBITUARY FACTS EXTRACT. (A standard format for extracting facts from obituaries compiled after 1923. This is an extract of facts only, not the actual obituary. For the actual obituary, see the source noted.) NAME: Clarkson Alvin Kenworthy. AGE: 72. CITY/COUNTY/STATE OF RESIDENCE: Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. DEATH/PLACE: 31 March 1977 at his residence. BIRTH/PLACE: 14 Feb. 1905 in Russellville, Indiana. FATHER: Vernon W. Kenworthy. MOTHER: Ethel Kenworthy. SPOUSE(S): Louise Hatcher (married 1 June 1929). SISTER(S): Miss Alice Kenworthy. BROTHERS: One brother (deceased). FUNERAL HOME: Murray Funeral Home in Greenfield, Ohio. BURIAL LOCATION: Greenfield Cemetery in Greenfield, Ohio. OTHER INFORMATION: Member of Methodist Church. Member Greenfield Masonic Lodge 318, Shrine, York Rite. OCCUPATION: Past owner and operator of Kenworthy Seed Co. in Greenfield, Ohio. EXTRACT SOURCE: 1 April 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY TIMES of Greenfield, Ohio. Additional Comments: OTHER INFORMATION NOT IN OBITUARY: Other multiple-column articles about Mr. Kenworthy appear in the 3 Dec. 1936 and 2 May 1977 GREENFIELD DAILY TIMES. Photographs of Mr. Kenworthy are part of the articles. The articles talk in great detail about how he achieved national and international acclaim for his production and development of superior hybrid corns, and of his contributions to agricultural science and agribusiness. His associates included the imminent geneticists Dr. George Harrison Shull and Dr. Frederick D. Richey. Mr. Kenworthy sold his business to Victor Lucas in the 1960s when his health began to fail. Mr. Kenworthy’s brother, Glenn Kenworthy, was lost in the sinking of the U.S. navy cruiser USS Indianapolis during World War II. Mr. Kenworthy graduated from New London, Ind. high School in 1923. He graduated from Perdue University in 1927. He took graduate studies at Perdue and Ohio State University. He taught at Jeffersonville and Oak Hill schools before becoming vocational agriculture instructor at Edward McClain High School in Greenfield, Ohio. He was the uncle of Miss Adelaide Shull, head of the languages department at McClain High School for many years. He also served two four-year terms on the Board of Education. He was a member of the official board of the First United Methodist Church for many years. He was instrumental in reviving the grange in this community. He was a member of the Greenfield Rotary Club and the Greenfield Elks Lodge 717. He was a member of the last Greenfield Board of Cemetery Trustees to function under the village form of municipal government. Mr. Kenworthy was also a Mason and was affiliated with the F & M Lodge, the RAM chapter, the Knights Templar, York Rite, and the Shrine. According to the articles, “Mr. Kenworthy was accorded and took great pride in receiving and reciprocating the respect and friendship of his home community as well as professional and business associates from near and far. Quiet spoken, he was a scholarly gentleman of firm convictions and positive expression. A dedicated teacher, he labored with devotion in his life’s work of improving one of nature’s bounties for the benefit of mankind through the science of hybrid corn seed development.” Mr. Kenworthy and his partners operated a farm in the early 1960s that was located where the beach at Deer Creek Lake State Park in Ohio is now located. My father worked for him as resident farmhand, and our family lived in the white, two-story house that was on the farm. When I graduated from the 8th grade at nearby Rainsboro, Ohio Elementary School, Mr. Kenworthy gave me new copy of Webster’s Dictionary as a graduation present. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/unknown/obits/k/kenworth480gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb