Cleone Irene ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Likely the large side yard of their childhood home at 388 Hilton Street, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa provided endless hours of imaginative play for Cleone, her elder brother Wren and elder sister Myrna.
From DeeAnna Allum Granston (photo taken in 1964)


1909 BIRTH of Cleone Irene Allum (called "Ione")

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo ("Irene," age 7 months, with parents)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo ("Cleone," age 5, born in Iowa, 4 months in public school, church affiliation, "Methodist")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo ("Cleone," age 10, with parents)

1923 DIVORCE of parents, John Banks Allum and Gertrude (Amrine) Allum

1923 MARRIAGE of mother, Gertrude (Amrine) Allum and John G. Brown

1924 MARRIAGE of father, John Banks Allum and Mary "Abbie" (Tebbetts) Hoopes

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo ("Cleone I.," age 15, with father, "John B.," and stepmother, "Abbie M.")

1927 DEATH of father, John Banks Allum

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Benton County, Florence Township, Norway ("Cleone Allum," age 20, divorced, is in household of her mother and stepfather, Gertrude and John Brown, with stepsister Ione ("Assistant Postmaster") and half-brother James) (stepfather, John Brown, "Laborer, county road")

1931 DEATH of stepmother, Mary "Abbie" (Tebbetts) (Hoopes) Allum

1938 MARRIAGE of Cleone Irene Allum and Carl Anthony Pelzer on June 15 at Norway, Benton County, Iowa at St. Patrick Catholic Church by Rev. William Runkle

1964 DEATH of mother, Gertrude (Amrine) (Allum) Brown

1986 DEATH of husband, Carl Anthony Pelzer, at approximately 77 years

1994 DEATH, Cleone Irene (Allum) Pelzer, at 84 years 8 months 27 days



CHURCH AFFILIATION: Cleone was baptized in September, 1910, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois by Rev. Donald Runkle, re-baptized in May, 1938 (location undocumented) when she converted to Catholicism. Carl was baptized January 21, 1909 at Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa by Rev. Carroll



OBITUARY (Cleone) from the AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, September 15, 1994:

Cleone I. Pelzer, 84, of Ames died Thursday of respiratory arrest at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Tama. Burial will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Calvary Cemetery in Marengo.

Cleone Allum was born in Marengo to John and Gertrude (Amrine) Allum. She married Carl A. Pelzer in Norway on June 15, 1938. A 1927 graduate of Marengo High School, she worked as a postal clerk in Norway and was later employed for 23 years at Carter's Jewelry Store in Toledo. In 1982, she and her husband moved to Ames. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, the St. Theresa Circle, and the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. In August, she was honored for being the only true daughter of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War in Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother.

Visitation will be Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Henderson-Overton Funeral Home in Toledo.




OBITUARY (Carl), January 1, 1987:


Services For Carl Pelzer Were Held in Toledo

Funeral mass for Carl Pelzer, 77, Ames, a former Marengo resident, was held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, from St. Patrick's Catholic church, Tama, with burial following in Calvary cemetery, Marengo.

In failing health five years, he died Friday night, Dec. 19, 1986, at Mary Greeley hospital, Ames. He had been hospitalized since July.

Scripture service was held at Henderson Funeral home, Toledo, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22.

Born January 21, 1909 at Marengo, Carl A. Pelzer was the son of John and Margaret Sullivan Pelzer. Raised in Marengo, he received his education in Marengo schools, graduating with the class of 1927. He continued his education at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, graduating in 1932.


Hall of Fame

He was among 12 former St. Ambrose College athletes inducted into the St. Ambrose Hall of Fame during homecoming activities Oct. 12. Since he was hospitalized in July after falling and breaking a hip at his home, his son accepted the honor for him. Pelzer played four years of football with St. Ambrose beginning with the 1927 season. He also ran on the track team in 1928 and 1929. In the news release on his nomination to the Hall of Fame, Pelzer, as a senior in 1931, was credited along with the quarterback in leading the team to a 9 - 1 mark, a school record at that time for the most victories in a single season. It was a record that stood until 1950. The 1931 team also scored the first win in seven years over what was then Columbia and is now Loras College, and Pelzer was awarded the game ball.

Pelzer was the bookkeeper at Iowa Valley Creamery, Marengo, and then managed bowling alleys in Marengo, Sigourney and Iowa City before purchasing a pool and billiard hall in Toledo in 1937. He operated it until retiring in 1974.

During World War II h ws yard foreman for Joslin Wood Preserving plant, Tama.

His marriage to the former Cleone Allum took place at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Norway, June 15, 1938. They moved to Ames in December, 1982.

He was a member of St. Cecelia's Catholic Church, Ames, and had been a member of Holy Name Order at Tama. His hobbies included hunting and fishing and he enjoyed watching football.

Preceding him in death were his parents and a brother, Eugene.




CORRESPONDENCE:

Original handwritten letter to DeeAnna dated January 13, 1981 from Cleone Allum Pelzer (3 1/2 pages)



CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Margaret Smith Brennan

Cleone married Carl Anthony PELZER, son of John Anton PELZER and Margaret T. SULLIVAN, on June 15, 1938 in Norway, Benton County, Iowa. (Carl Anthony PELZER was born on January 21, 1909 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa, died on December 19, 1986 in Ames, Story County, Iowa and was buried on December 23, 1986 in Calvary Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa.)