Juneteenth in Clarksville: City offices closed Friday, 2 festivals planned Saturday
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Two of the biggest celebrity names that have ever called the Clarksville area home are both remembered for being trailblazing women in sports.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph and Patricia Susan (Head) Summitt pioneered and championed their respective sports of women s track and field and women s basketball. They became influential not only within the sporting arena, but throughout humanity.
They are joined on this group of famous people with ties to Clarksville by a U.S. Army sergeant who appeared on televisions across the country in the 1960s, a homesick soldier at then-Camp Campbell who drew images of fellow soldiers during World War II and a groovy former resident of Clarksville s east end.
Apr 13, 2021
Beloved husband and father, Leslie Milton Graham, 95, of Marshalltown, IA passed away Sunday, April 11, 2021, at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at First United Methodist Church in Marshalltown. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m., until the time of the services at the church. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery with military honors provided by the Marshalltown Combined VFW and American Legion Honor Guard. Arrangements are entrusted to Anderson Funeral Homes of Marshalltown. Online condolences may be sent to www.andersonfhs.com
Leslie was born in Rothsay, MN, July 9, 1925, The family moved to Burt, IA where Leslie grew up in a family of five brothers and four sisters along with his parents Jay and Clara Graham. He graduated from Burt High School at the age of 16 spending the following year in his father’s blacksmith shop where he honed his carpentry skills. He entered the service in 1943 at 18 during