Biography, below, submitted by F.A.G. volunteer, Harold W Havard, 47392225, March 11, 2017.
Thank you, Harold!
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) — Sunday, February 7, 1988
Services for Clifford R. Clodfelter, a retired school administrator and teacher, will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. Clodfelter died Friday at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after a lengthy illness. He was 85.
He was born near Enid, Okla., and attended high school in Enid. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University. He competed as a wrestler in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Clodfelter worked as a teacher, coach and high school principal in Oklahoma high schools and was superintendent of schools for the Dooley, Okla., school district. In 1957, he moved to Irving and worked at Irving High School as a teacher and adviser. He became principal of Barton Elementary School in Irving in 1965 and retired in 1976. He served as an adjunct professor in the teacher's education program at the University of Dallas and in the school of education at Oklahoma State University after retiring.
He held offices in the Rotary International, Kiwanis, YMCA, Masonic Lodge, National Association of School Administrators and Texas State Teachers Association and had life memberships in the state and national parent-teacher associations. He was a member of the South MacArthur Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Clodfelter; a son, C. Ronald Clodfelter; a daughter, Cherie Clodfelter, all of Irving; and two sisters, Ida Keller of Wichita Falls and Elsie Claunch of Enid, Okla.
Memorials may be made to the Excellence in Education Forum, Department of Education, University of Dallas.
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Thank you, Harold!
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) — Sunday, February 7, 1988
Services for Clifford R. Clodfelter, a retired school administrator and teacher, will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. Clodfelter died Friday at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after a lengthy illness. He was 85.
He was born near Enid, Okla., and attended high school in Enid. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University. He competed as a wrestler in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Clodfelter worked as a teacher, coach and high school principal in Oklahoma high schools and was superintendent of schools for the Dooley, Okla., school district. In 1957, he moved to Irving and worked at Irving High School as a teacher and adviser. He became principal of Barton Elementary School in Irving in 1965 and retired in 1976. He served as an adjunct professor in the teacher's education program at the University of Dallas and in the school of education at Oklahoma State University after retiring.
He held offices in the Rotary International, Kiwanis, YMCA, Masonic Lodge, National Association of School Administrators and Texas State Teachers Association and had life memberships in the state and national parent-teacher associations. He was a member of the South MacArthur Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Clodfelter; a son, C. Ronald Clodfelter; a daughter, Cherie Clodfelter, all of Irving; and two sisters, Ida Keller of Wichita Falls and Elsie Claunch of Enid, Okla.
Memorials may be made to the Excellence in Education Forum, Department of Education, University of Dallas.
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Biography, below, submitted by F.A.G. volunteer, Harold W Havard, 47392225, March 11, 2017.
Thank you, Harold!
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) — Sunday, February 7, 1988
Services for Clifford R. Clodfelter, a retired school administrator and teacher, will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. Clodfelter died Friday at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after a lengthy illness. He was 85.
He was born near Enid, Okla., and attended high school in Enid. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University. He competed as a wrestler in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Clodfelter worked as a teacher, coach and high school principal in Oklahoma high schools and was superintendent of schools for the Dooley, Okla., school district. In 1957, he moved to Irving and worked at Irving High School as a teacher and adviser. He became principal of Barton Elementary School in Irving in 1965 and retired in 1976. He served as an adjunct professor in the teacher's education program at the University of Dallas and in the school of education at Oklahoma State University after retiring.
He held offices in the Rotary International, Kiwanis, YMCA, Masonic Lodge, National Association of School Administrators and Texas State Teachers Association and had life memberships in the state and national parent-teacher associations. He was a member of the South MacArthur Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Clodfelter; a son, C. Ronald Clodfelter; a daughter, Cherie Clodfelter, all of Irving; and two sisters, Ida Keller of Wichita Falls and Elsie Claunch of Enid, Okla.
Memorials may be made to the Excellence in Education Forum, Department of Education, University of Dallas.
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Thank you, Harold!
Dallas Morning News, The (TX) — Sunday, February 7, 1988
Services for Clifford R. Clodfelter, a retired school administrator and teacher, will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. Clodfelter died Friday at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after a lengthy illness. He was 85.
He was born near Enid, Okla., and attended high school in Enid. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University. He competed as a wrestler in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Clodfelter worked as a teacher, coach and high school principal in Oklahoma high schools and was superintendent of schools for the Dooley, Okla., school district. In 1957, he moved to Irving and worked at Irving High School as a teacher and adviser. He became principal of Barton Elementary School in Irving in 1965 and retired in 1976. He served as an adjunct professor in the teacher's education program at the University of Dallas and in the school of education at Oklahoma State University after retiring.
He held offices in the Rotary International, Kiwanis, YMCA, Masonic Lodge, National Association of School Administrators and Texas State Teachers Association and had life memberships in the state and national parent-teacher associations. He was a member of the South MacArthur Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife, Beatrice Clodfelter; a son, C. Ronald Clodfelter; a daughter, Cherie Clodfelter, all of Irving; and two sisters, Ida Keller of Wichita Falls and Elsie Claunch of Enid, Okla.
Memorials may be made to the Excellence in Education Forum, Department of Education, University of Dallas.
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