CLAUDE M. CHENEY
Funeral services for Claude M. Cheney, 84, of Hotel Russell-Lamson, former president of the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad, who died Monday, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian church with Dr. H.E. Dierenfield pastor officiating. burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the O’Keefe & Towne funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The casket will not be opened at the church.
Page Two, Wednesday, January 20, 1960
Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
CLAUDE M. CHENEY DEAD
Claude M. Cheney, 84, former president of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad, died in Allen Memorial Hospital at 10 p.m. Monday of complications due to advanced age.
Mr. Cheney who lived at Hotel Russell-Lamson, had been critically ill for several weeks
Associated with the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern for 48 years, Mr. Cheney guided the interurban railroad until his retirement in 1956.
At that time the railroad which had already suspended passenger service to Waverly and Cedar Rapids, became the Waterloo Railroad jointly owned by the Illinois Central and the rock Island Lines.
Mr. Cheney was born in Bradford, Ill., Oct. 25, 1875, the son of Eugene and Elsie Colbourn Cheney.
He attended the public schools in Marshalltown and was married to Elizabeth M. Briggs, Feb. 21, 1895 in Savannah, Mo.
MR. CHENEY BEGAN his railroad career in 1892 as a station agent for the Chicago and Great Western Railroad after two years as a telegraph operator in Marshalltown and Mason City.
He joined the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co. in 1904 as traffic manager and except for a four-year stint with the Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad from 1920-24, was with the organization until 1956.
Mr. Cheney became president of the WCF&N in 1924, a position he held until the line went into receivership in 1940.
For 45 months Mr. Cheney acted as receiver for the firm and when the railway was re-organized as the WCF&N Railroad in 1944, he resumed his position as president.
MR. CHENEY was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Waterloo and United States Chambers of Commerce, Sunnyside Country Club, the Waterloo Rotary Past Presidents Club, the Elks Club, the Symposium Club, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
He is survived by a son, Eugene, of Dundee, Ill., and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Halleck of Dubuque, seven grandchildren.
Mr. Cheney was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1957, a son Robert, and a daughter, Mrs. Majorie Johnson.
Funeral services are pending at O’Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.
The family requests that memorials be given to the First Presbyterian Church building fund or the Hillcrest Baby Fold of Dubuque instead of sending flowers.
Funeral services for Claude M. Cheney, 84, of Hotel Russell-Lamson, former president of the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad, who died Monday, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian church with Dr. H.E. Dierenfield pastor officiating. burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the O’Keefe & Towne funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The casket will not be opened at the church.
Page Two, Wednesday, January 20, 1960
Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
CLAUDE M. CHENEY DEAD
Claude M. Cheney, 84, former president of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad, died in Allen Memorial Hospital at 10 p.m. Monday of complications due to advanced age.
Mr. Cheney who lived at Hotel Russell-Lamson, had been critically ill for several weeks
Associated with the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern for 48 years, Mr. Cheney guided the interurban railroad until his retirement in 1956.
At that time the railroad which had already suspended passenger service to Waverly and Cedar Rapids, became the Waterloo Railroad jointly owned by the Illinois Central and the rock Island Lines.
Mr. Cheney was born in Bradford, Ill., Oct. 25, 1875, the son of Eugene and Elsie Colbourn Cheney.
He attended the public schools in Marshalltown and was married to Elizabeth M. Briggs, Feb. 21, 1895 in Savannah, Mo.
MR. CHENEY BEGAN his railroad career in 1892 as a station agent for the Chicago and Great Western Railroad after two years as a telegraph operator in Marshalltown and Mason City.
He joined the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co. in 1904 as traffic manager and except for a four-year stint with the Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad from 1920-24, was with the organization until 1956.
Mr. Cheney became president of the WCF&N in 1924, a position he held until the line went into receivership in 1940.
For 45 months Mr. Cheney acted as receiver for the firm and when the railway was re-organized as the WCF&N Railroad in 1944, he resumed his position as president.
MR. CHENEY was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Waterloo and United States Chambers of Commerce, Sunnyside Country Club, the Waterloo Rotary Past Presidents Club, the Elks Club, the Symposium Club, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
He is survived by a son, Eugene, of Dundee, Ill., and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Halleck of Dubuque, seven grandchildren.
Mr. Cheney was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1957, a son Robert, and a daughter, Mrs. Majorie Johnson.
Funeral services are pending at O’Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.
The family requests that memorials be given to the First Presbyterian Church building fund or the Hillcrest Baby Fold of Dubuque instead of sending flowers.
CLAUDE M. CHENEY
Funeral services for Claude M. Cheney, 84, of Hotel Russell-Lamson, former president of the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad, who died Monday, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian church with Dr. H.E. Dierenfield pastor officiating. burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the O’Keefe & Towne funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The casket will not be opened at the church.
Page Two, Wednesday, January 20, 1960
Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
CLAUDE M. CHENEY DEAD
Claude M. Cheney, 84, former president of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad, died in Allen Memorial Hospital at 10 p.m. Monday of complications due to advanced age.
Mr. Cheney who lived at Hotel Russell-Lamson, had been critically ill for several weeks
Associated with the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern for 48 years, Mr. Cheney guided the interurban railroad until his retirement in 1956.
At that time the railroad which had already suspended passenger service to Waverly and Cedar Rapids, became the Waterloo Railroad jointly owned by the Illinois Central and the rock Island Lines.
Mr. Cheney was born in Bradford, Ill., Oct. 25, 1875, the son of Eugene and Elsie Colbourn Cheney.
He attended the public schools in Marshalltown and was married to Elizabeth M. Briggs, Feb. 21, 1895 in Savannah, Mo.
MR. CHENEY BEGAN his railroad career in 1892 as a station agent for the Chicago and Great Western Railroad after two years as a telegraph operator in Marshalltown and Mason City.
He joined the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co. in 1904 as traffic manager and except for a four-year stint with the Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad from 1920-24, was with the organization until 1956.
Mr. Cheney became president of the WCF&N in 1924, a position he held until the line went into receivership in 1940.
For 45 months Mr. Cheney acted as receiver for the firm and when the railway was re-organized as the WCF&N Railroad in 1944, he resumed his position as president.
MR. CHENEY was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Waterloo and United States Chambers of Commerce, Sunnyside Country Club, the Waterloo Rotary Past Presidents Club, the Elks Club, the Symposium Club, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
He is survived by a son, Eugene, of Dundee, Ill., and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Halleck of Dubuque, seven grandchildren.
Mr. Cheney was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1957, a son Robert, and a daughter, Mrs. Majorie Johnson.
Funeral services are pending at O’Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.
The family requests that memorials be given to the First Presbyterian Church building fund or the Hillcrest Baby Fold of Dubuque instead of sending flowers.
Funeral services for Claude M. Cheney, 84, of Hotel Russell-Lamson, former president of the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad, who died Monday, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian church with Dr. H.E. Dierenfield pastor officiating. burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the O’Keefe & Towne funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The casket will not be opened at the church.
Page Two, Wednesday, January 20, 1960
Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
CLAUDE M. CHENEY DEAD
Claude M. Cheney, 84, former president of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad, died in Allen Memorial Hospital at 10 p.m. Monday of complications due to advanced age.
Mr. Cheney who lived at Hotel Russell-Lamson, had been critically ill for several weeks
Associated with the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern for 48 years, Mr. Cheney guided the interurban railroad until his retirement in 1956.
At that time the railroad which had already suspended passenger service to Waverly and Cedar Rapids, became the Waterloo Railroad jointly owned by the Illinois Central and the rock Island Lines.
Mr. Cheney was born in Bradford, Ill., Oct. 25, 1875, the son of Eugene and Elsie Colbourn Cheney.
He attended the public schools in Marshalltown and was married to Elizabeth M. Briggs, Feb. 21, 1895 in Savannah, Mo.
MR. CHENEY BEGAN his railroad career in 1892 as a station agent for the Chicago and Great Western Railroad after two years as a telegraph operator in Marshalltown and Mason City.
He joined the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co. in 1904 as traffic manager and except for a four-year stint with the Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad from 1920-24, was with the organization until 1956.
Mr. Cheney became president of the WCF&N in 1924, a position he held until the line went into receivership in 1940.
For 45 months Mr. Cheney acted as receiver for the firm and when the railway was re-organized as the WCF&N Railroad in 1944, he resumed his position as president.
MR. CHENEY was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Waterloo and United States Chambers of Commerce, Sunnyside Country Club, the Waterloo Rotary Past Presidents Club, the Elks Club, the Symposium Club, and the Union League Club of Chicago.
He is survived by a son, Eugene, of Dundee, Ill., and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Halleck of Dubuque, seven grandchildren.
Mr. Cheney was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1957, a son Robert, and a daughter, Mrs. Majorie Johnson.
Funeral services are pending at O’Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.
The family requests that memorials be given to the First Presbyterian Church building fund or the Hillcrest Baby Fold of Dubuque instead of sending flowers.
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