Obituary - Walter P. Kleweno

Ex-Genesee farmer W. P. Kleweno dies

SEATTLE -- Walter P. Kleweno, 73, a former Genesee farmer, returned to his Seattle home Tuesday from the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Roy V. Hanson, at Lewiston, and died in bed Wednesday morning.

Kleweno was a prominent potato grower in the Genesee area from about 1923 until he moved to Alaska in 1938. He worked in a mine and as a fisherman at Juneau until 1954 and as a real estate broker at Seattle since then.

He was born Dec. 22, 1900, at Troy, Ida., to Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Kleweno. The family moved to Endicott while he was a child, and his father operated a merchandise store there. Kleweno attended schools in that community.

He attended Washington State University, Pullman for a couple years and then served in the U.S. Marine Corps until about 1923. He was married to Carrie Mae Hickman Feb. 14, 1926, at Genesee.

Survivors include his widow at the Seattle home; a daughter, Shirley Clyde, San Jose, Calif.; two sons, Walter, Albuquerque, N.M., and Reginald, in Connecticut; a brother, Arthur, San Francisco; a sister Martha Ratzow, Anacortes, Wash., and seven grandchildren.

The funeral will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Short's Chapel at Moscow with the Rev. Elbert W. Johnson of the Lewiston Congregational-Presbyterian (Federated) Church officiating. Burial will be at Moscow City Cemetery.

Unidentified newspaper, (undated clipping)
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock

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