C. L. “Pat” McCormick, 90

C. L. McCormick, 90, died Thursday, June 16, 2005, at Good Shepherd Home in Blair.

Funeral services were Monday, June 20, at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd in Blair. Interment was in the Blair Cemetery.

C. L. “Pat” McCormick was born July 1, 1914, in Blair. He was the sixth of 11 children born to Clarence N. and Leone F. (Moffitt) McCormick. He attended Blair schools.

Mr. McCormick ran a feed grinding service, drove a fruit route for Stolers Fruit of Omaha, and worked for Williams Bros. Pipeline. In 1942, he went to work for Denver-Chicago Trucking Co., driving from Blair to North Platte, and later drove from Denver to New York. He retired after 32 years, holding a 25-year “no accident” record.

On Oct. 14, 1931, he married Leota Van Deusen at Wahoo. The family made their home in Blair until Denver-Chicago moved its operations to Denver in 1956. The family lived in Westminster, Colo., until 1993, when the couple moved to their daughter’s home in Missouri Valley, Iowa. Mr. McCormick moved to the Good Shepherd Home in Blair in January 2000.

Mr. McCormick was a member of the Westminster Methodist Church and the Paul Revere Lodge AF&M of Denver.

He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, James and Charlene McCormick of Neosho, Mo.; daughters and son-in-law, Sara Jo McCormick of Denver, and Patricia and Bob Rand of Missouri Valley; six grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; sister, Thelma Springgate of Grand Blanc, Mich.; a brother, Glenn McCormick of Oakland, Calif., and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Leota, in 1994; a grandson, Tjarbe Rand; five sisters, Mildred Fackler, Jeannette Meador, Opal Wilkins, Lois King, Grace Frazier; three brothers, Billy, George and Johnny McCormick.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Omaha Alzheimer’s Association, Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, or the Missouri Valley Methodist Church.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~