Wakefield, May 28 – Clifton H. Seeley, 89 a charter member and first president of the Wakefield Ruritan Club, died Sunday at a Petersburg hospital.
Mr. Seeley, who lived in Sussex county near here for 45 years and near Petersburg for 16 years, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence G. Seeley; two sons, W.E. Seeley of Clover, S.C., and W.C. Seeley of Waverly; two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Ashbaugh of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Effie Chapman of Fallen, Nev.; seven stepchildren, seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Purviance Funeral Home here, with burial in Wakefield Cemetery.
Published in The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) Tuesday, May 29, 1956
[Son of SGS # 3948 – Clifton Herrick; Herrick Bromley (#3948); Thaddeus O’Conner (# 1773); Thaddeus; John; Ebenezer, Jonas; Obadiah]
