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ROTAN - Funeral will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church here for Clarence E. Leon, prominent Rotan business and civic leader.
Mr. Leon, 67, died about 8:30 a.m. Monday in a Dallas hotel while on a business trip to Dallas.
The Rev. Huron Polnac, pastor, and the L. L. Trott, District 17 missionary from Abilene and a former pastor, will officiate.
Burial will be in Rule Cemetery with Weathersbee Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Leon collapsed on his bed in a Dallas hotel room while talking with his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Blackshear of Spur. He was pronounced dead by the hotel physician who arrived shortly after the Blackshears called for help.
Born Aug. 19, 1891 in Milam County, Mr. Leon moved to Haskell County in 1903 with his parents. He married Nora Cloud Sept. 9. 1916 at Rule. They moved to Rotan in 1930.
In the ice-making and food storage business about 30 years, Mr. Leon bult up a chain of ice houses, ice manufacturing plants and locker plants throughtout West Central Texas.
He was also associated with a brother, C. D. of Abilene, in the theater business for several years. More recently he had been concentrated on farming and ranching interests in Haskell and Kent counties.
Water commissioner here at time of his death, Mr. Leon had served on the city council about 17 years, serving as mayor proterm part of that time.
He had been a member of the First Baptist Church since 1922, the Abilene Club and was a Shriner, Knight Templar, past president of the Rotan Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Luncheon Club. He was also a director of the First National Bank here and long time school trustee.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Blackshear, Mrs. E. D. Denton of Jayton and Mrs. John N. Barnhart of Beeville; two brothers, C. D. of 1749 Tanglewood Rd., Abilene, and M. T. of Las Vegas, N. M.; one sister, Mrs. H. C. Weaver of Plainview; and seven granchildren.
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1892 - 1959 (66 years)
