GILBERT CLINTON

Funeral Mass for Gilbert Niles Clinton of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Cathedral. Msgr. Richard Rolwing will officiate. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Friends may call at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel from 4:30-8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7, and Knights of Columbus rosary at 7:30.

Clinton, 88, died Saturday, May 1, 1999, at Cape Girardeau Residential Care Center.

He was born March 8, 1911, in Plainville, Ind., son of Daniel J. and Lula Fettic Clinton. He and Marie B. Grojean were married June 9, 1935, at Sikeston. She died Sept. 14, 1995.

Clinton had been self-employed. He was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral and Knights of Columbus Council 11205.

Survivors include a son, Roy Clinton of West Monroe, La.; two daughters, Barbara Lohr of Jackson, Bonnie Eaglin of Morehead, Ky.; four sisters, Louise Theissen, Joy Cunningham, Dorothy Baldwin and Ruth Hamlon, all of Indiana; a brother, Ray Clinton of Sikeston; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, a half brother, and a halfsister.