Carter Co., OK - OBIT:  Otho Clingenpeel

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Submitted by:  Allison Cozzi  acozzi@cozzi.net
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Joplin News Herald
Dec. 26, 1929

Former Galena Man Killed in Crash

Galena, KS, Dec. 26 -- The body of Otho Clingenpeel, 25 years old, of 
Ardmore, Okla., former Galena resident and son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Clingenpeel, 1603 Main Street here, who was killed at 6 o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon when the automobile in which he was riding collided with a large
bus near Ardmore, will arrive here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements
are incomplete.

The body will arrive in Baxter Springs at 3 o'clock, where it will be
received by the Clark Undertaking Company of this city.

Clingenpeel was employed with the Amerada Petroleum Corporation at Ardmore.
He and Superintendent Benedict of the company had been inspecting leases and
were returning to Ardmore when the accident occurred, according to information
received here. Benedict is in a hospital at Ardmore. His condition is not
serious, how-..... Clingenpeel had been with the company at Ardmore for three 
years. He had resided here most of his life.

Surviving besides his parents, are his widow, Mrs. Esther Clingenpeel at Ardmore,
and three brothers, Floyd and Walter Clingenpeel of Galena, and Kenneth
Clingenpeel of Treece.